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uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>283</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8553305205739658611</id><published>2008-06-14T12:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:08.983-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fossil fuel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market prices'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='G8'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inflation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Oil reaching for the stratosphere, G8 worried!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/SFQbaZjPfII/AAAAAAAABKo/Q1DKCuULecY/s1600-h/353797677_ca297a2ae6_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/SFQbaZjPfII/AAAAAAAABKo/Q1DKCuULecY/s400/353797677_ca297a2ae6_m.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211820809123757186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080614/japan_g8.html"&gt;Oil&lt;/a&gt; reaching the stratosphere with prices as high as $135, the G8 have started to apply the 'squeeze' on OPEC, urging them to increase production so as to alleviate the demand on the Oil rates. OPEC as we all know, has so far refused to do so, rationalizing that any such increase in production may lead to a resource depletion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That rationalization as well as the fact that most of the Oil producing nations have started to see benefits in the high price of Oil, falls flat especially when one considers that there are billions of gallons of Oil available. Furthermore, if inflation is set to continue the current trend on a worldwide scale, it may after all be the right time to develop an alternative to Oil. Currently there are certain projects in the initiation phase, with the goal being to render Oil worthless altogether. But any such alternate fuel developed will have to undergo years of testing and in the meantime, it seems that we cannot do anything much except to grin and bear it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S treasury secretary &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080614/japan_g8.html"&gt;Henry Paulson&lt;/a&gt; has made it known that the current spikes in the Oil price is not on account of speculators but that it is more on account of a supply and demand problem. It is high time that OPEC realized that it cannot have it both ways and that it should take into account the growth in world population and the increasing demand on Oil, therefore it should increase the production right away. 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Just drop in for a visit and check their site out!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2337883171199724159?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2337883171199724159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2337883171199724159' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2337883171199724159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2337883171199724159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/03/debt-worries-all-over.html' title='Debt worries all over!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1053497811574372773</id><published>2008-03-26T09:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-26T09:47:13.580-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='merchandise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reactions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='analysts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stock exchange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Stocks get floored as analyst predicts bleak outlook!</title><content type='html'>Wall Street is in the grips of the bear once again, what else is new? With the markets reacting like a yo-yo to everything that an analyst may or may not say about the markets in general, the &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080326/bs_nm/markets_stocks_dc"&gt;Wall street&lt;/a&gt; these days are resembling a roller coaster in more ways than one. The latest round of the 'bleak summaries' on the banks and the credit crisis, sent the markets reeling and the news of surging Oil prices only further increased the pressure on the markets.&lt;br /&gt;With the markets reacting to interviews like this, is it any wonder that the consumers are wary of investing even a dime in them? What we sorely need is a period of stability and a market that does not swing wildly just on the basis of a news report. With the Fed taking a proactive stand as far as the U.S economy is concerned, the latest moves by the market clearly show that the sheen is gone off the interest rate cuts. So the obvious question is what is the Fed planning to do next to give a further Filip to the markets? Let us cross our fingers and start hoping for the best.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1053497811574372773?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080326/bs_nm/markets_stocks_dc' title='Stocks get floored as analyst predicts bleak outlook!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1053497811574372773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1053497811574372773' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1053497811574372773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1053497811574372773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/03/stocks-get-floored-as-analyst-predicts.html' title='Stocks get floored as analyst predicts bleak outlook!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6806729912742622737</id><published>2008-03-11T14:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-11T15:08:21.170-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='documents'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='franchise'/><title type='text'>The franchise essentials!</title><content type='html'>For everyone who is planning to introduce the franchise concept in their business, may soon realise the headache of doing so. As one needs to put in a lot of effort and conceptualise the plans accordingly, one may soon realise that one would need all the help when it comes to introducing the franchise plans to ones organisation.&lt;br /&gt;This is where this site comes in, this site offers ready made franchise solutions for all kinds of business and for anywhere in the world, literally. Here at this site one can get &lt;a href="http://www.franchisedocumentsonline.com"&gt;Franchise Documents&lt;/a&gt; and one can use these documents to start one's own franchise with no trouble whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are in need of a &lt;a href="http://www.franchisedocumentsonline.com"&gt;Franchise Manual&lt;/a&gt; telling you what to do and guide you accordingly with respect to starting the franchise, then this is the site for you. 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All in all, as far as franchises go, this site is a must visit for all the essential details that one would need.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6806729912742622737?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6806729912742622737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6806729912742622737' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6806729912742622737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6806729912742622737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/03/franchise-essentials.html' title='The franchise essentials!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-4042124411247899033</id><published>2008-03-11T14:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-11T15:15:38.218-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='optimsim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>The new credit plan gives Wall Street a boost!</title><content type='html'>The latest moves by the Fed and the banks to alleviate the credit crisis that has been haunting this country for quite some time now, has seemed to have given a boost to Wall Street today. By posting an increase of 400 points, one can say that the Wall Street is finally seeing a bit of the light at the end of the tunnel.&lt;br /&gt;But one should also take care to remember that the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080311/wall_street.html"&gt;Wall Street&lt;/a&gt; has been kind of twitchy of late and that one should not consider the latest increase as a change in the momentum. As far as the Wall Street goes, these days, it is better to cross the bridge when one comes to it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-4042124411247899033?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080311/wall_street.html' title='The new credit plan gives Wall Street a boost!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/4042124411247899033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=4042124411247899033' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/4042124411247899033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/4042124411247899033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-credit-plan-gives-wall-street-boost.html' title='The new credit plan gives Wall Street a boost!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2930517346054559955</id><published>2008-03-05T14:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-05T14:53:18.700-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cards'/><title type='text'>The truth about credit cards!</title><content type='html'>With credit cards already in the thousands and increasing day by day, we all need the services of a site that helps us to sort them all out. one such site is this one and I have to say that this is one of the best sites with regard to helping us out in choosing that perfect card. True, each and every card can be easily differentiated by the amount of interest that they charge, but did you know that the rate of interest can also vary according to the amount and the duration it takes you to pay that debt. Which is why, when it comes to cards, we should choose the &lt;a href="http://www.credit-card-analyzer.com/Fair-Credit-Card-Deals-881883-page.php"&gt;Fair credit credit cards&lt;/a&gt; by taking a second and a third look at the analysis of all the cards there are in the market at present.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that there are many instant credit cards available in the market these days, and all of them with instant approval. Compared to the waiting period that we all have to go through each and every time we apply for one, with these &lt;a href="http://www.credit-card-analyzer.com/Instant-Approval-Cards-881877-page.php"&gt;Instant credit cards&lt;/a&gt; one does not have to worry about such things. All that is required is an application and soon, you should be able to get your hands on your instant card. To see all the instant cards available at present, just go to the links posted above and you should be able to check everything in person.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2930517346054559955?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2930517346054559955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2930517346054559955' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2930517346054559955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2930517346054559955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/03/truth-about-credit-cards.html' title='The truth about credit cards!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6741842241908365936</id><published>2008-03-05T14:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-05T14:38:49.946-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='confidence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer spending'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Economy has weakened, says the Fed!</title><content type='html'>Now that is something most of us have known for quite a while but to actually have Bernanke, the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080305/fed_economy.html"&gt;Fed chairman&lt;/a&gt; say those words in a public meeting is something that must have sent shivers down the backs of every single trader in Wall Street. The fact of the matter is that consumer confidence is really low these days and no matter what rebates the government offers, it is staying really low.&lt;br /&gt;One can blame it on the Iraq war or on the state of the economy at large or on the mortgage and sub prime crisis, but whatever you do blame it upon, the reality is that for the moment anyway, the consumers are following the banks. By that I mean, that they are holding very tightly onto their purse strings. Will the confidence come back? It will, without a doubt, but the only thing is that it is going to take some time for that to happen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6741842241908365936?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080305/fed_economy.html' title='Economy has weakened, says the Fed!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6741842241908365936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6741842241908365936' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6741842241908365936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6741842241908365936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/03/economy-has-weakened-says-fed.html' title='Economy has weakened, says the Fed!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1394975000174112180</id><published>2008-03-01T02:33:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T02:51:19.377-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><title type='text'>The money blitz!</title><content type='html'>These days it is getting harder and harder to say which online casinos are the real ones and which are not. Not to mention the fact that there are countless casino scams being perpetuated and that one has to always be on the watch so that one does not get scammed.&lt;br /&gt;The whole idea of an &lt;a href="http://www.onlinecasinolinks.com"&gt;online casino&lt;/a&gt;is that we need not travel all the way to Vegas to play in them. Now, with these online casinos, we can do it online from anywhere in the world. The hard part is in finding the right casino to play in, so that we can actually play and win money instead of losing out all of our hard earned money to some scamster.&lt;br /&gt;Which is why this site is so fantastic,it has a list of all the online casinos and has segregated them accordingly. It has also listed the various games offered by the various casinos and you can click on one of them to see the list of sites offering that game. For example, say you want to play &lt;a href="http://www.onlinecasinolinks.com/c/151714/1/online-bingo.html"&gt;bingo&lt;/a&gt;, then all you have to do is to click on the top tab for the list of sites offering this game and with that you are all set to go. This site also lists each site, the bonus offers that are available at this site as well the rating and the review. So check this site out by clcking on the links above!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1394975000174112180?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1394975000174112180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1394975000174112180' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1394975000174112180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1394975000174112180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-blitz.html' title='The money blitz!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6580526119870562677</id><published>2008-03-01T02:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T02:40:55.730-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='indian stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ecoinomy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='india'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='budget'/><title type='text'>The boot or a boost for the agriculture?</title><content type='html'>The Indian economy is one of the most resurgent economies of this world and one can say that the whole world was watching the Indian budget showdown yesterday. One of the highlights or should I say that the whole budget was about was the loan waiver that was being offered to all the farmers in India.&lt;br /&gt;What has come as a surprise to one and many is this waiver of loans as they are bound to have negative effects on the economy as a whole. What one is worried about is the impact on the banks as they already have enough on their plates. 2007 was one bad year for the banks worldwide and the announcement of the waiver has made things even worse for the Indian banks.&lt;br /&gt;But all is not gold yet as the farmers in the &lt;a href="http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080042750"&gt;Vidarbha region&lt;/a&gt; are yet to get any relief as a result of these new policies.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6580526119870562677?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080042750' title='The boot or a boost for the agriculture?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6580526119870562677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6580526119870562677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6580526119870562677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6580526119870562677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/03/boot-or-boost-for-agriculture.html' title='The boot or a boost for the agriculture?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-684318953481010154</id><published>2008-02-26T15:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:09.340-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><title type='text'>Gold is the beacon for investent these days!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8ScCfy9iHI/AAAAAAAABII/FZexf8msLTM/s1600-h/376521_c5952.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8ScCfy9iHI/AAAAAAAABII/FZexf8msLTM/s400/376521_c5952.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171429838837090418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the price of gold heading in only one direction, these are the days that we should invest more in the yellow metal. These days, with the economy being in the state that it is, the lure of gold is glowing as bright as it ever did. Here at Monex rare coins, the leader when it comes to investment in precious metals, they offer us the best gold coins there are at very attractive rates. Monex can get us the best &lt;a href="http://www.zoomcoin.com/rare-coin-gallery/"&gt;gold coins&lt;/a&gt; there are at the least price possible. This is because Monex has a network that is connected to every coin market in the world and therefore can get us really good quality rare coins at the best rates possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normally when we think of gold we tend to think of jewellery, but did you know that you can actually buy gold for collection as well as investment purposes. Imagine buying a hoard of gold at the market prices that exist today and within a sort span of time, the value of that gold would have doubled and then trebled. That is a fact, that is why these are the days when we should seriously consider the option of investing in gold. But whatever we purchase the gold for, before we do that we need to go to the very best in this field for some advice and the very best is none other than Monex rare coins. So before you make any purchase, stop by for a visit!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-684318953481010154?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/684318953481010154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=684318953481010154' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/684318953481010154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/684318953481010154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/gold-is-beacon-for-investent-these-days.html' title='Gold is the beacon for investent these days!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8ScCfy9iHI/AAAAAAAABII/FZexf8msLTM/s72-c/376521_c5952.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-3718635257890258774</id><published>2008-02-26T10:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-26T10:45:40.627-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wave'/><title type='text'>Bloggerwave rolls out!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://www.bloggerwave.com/blogviewcount.php?pic=sponsorlogo.gif&amp;OpportunityId=31&amp;BlogId=771&amp;sponsor=yes&amp;LinkId=1" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloggerwave rolls out and it is indeed good news for all the bloggers out there.For one thing &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bloggerwave.com/blog_ClickTrack.php?OpportunityId=31&amp;BlogId=771&amp;LinkId=1"&gt;bloggerwave&lt;/a&gt; besides being a paid to blog post is a whole lot more than that. Unlike other paid to blog post sites, Bloggerwave offers opportunities to its bloggers with a no follow tag. I am sure that being a blogger you are well aware why this is important.&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, Bloggerwave has rolled out some new opportunities and it is time to do some blogging and get paid for it as well!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-3718635257890258774?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/3718635257890258774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=3718635257890258774' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3718635257890258774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3718635257890258774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/bloggerwave-rolls-out.html' title='Bloggerwave rolls out!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-9044036985311941268</id><published>2008-02-25T13:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:09.755-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='real estate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market prices'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='retail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='index'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='realtors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='old homes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new homes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homes'/><title type='text'>Homes humping the economy down?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8M0_Py9iCI/AAAAAAAABHg/rEYRkVX4GE4/s1600-h/456440_a3259.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8M0_Py9iCI/AAAAAAAABHg/rEYRkVX4GE4/s400/456440_a3259.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171035058328143906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The title may sound a bit crass but given the fact that this is the sixth straight month that the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080225/economy.html"&gt;sales data for homes&lt;/a&gt; has fallen flat, one cannot help to think but exactly that. The homes data just seems to be heading in one direction and that is the basement level. This is the sixth straight month where the sales of new homes has fallen low and analysts are predicting that this is bound to get even worse.&lt;br /&gt;With unemployment increasing day by day and with the consumer confidence at an all time low, people are just not interested in dumping all of their life savings on an asset that may well be devalued in a few months time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then again, there is the other side of the coin; the prices of new homes are at an all time low. The days of when you thought that the mansion next door must be well above your price range are long gone. These days, one never knows what one can get within ones price range, who knows, it may even turn out to be a mansion in Bel-air. With such low prices one would have thought that the Realtors would have to be beating off the crowd with a huge stick. But the sad reality is that even such low rates are not enough to jump start a customer’s enthusiasm these days. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8M1DPy9iDI/AAAAAAAABHo/9EpHEgHG364/s1600-h/305622_b_cf9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8M1DPy9iDI/AAAAAAAABHo/9EpHEgHG364/s400/305622_b_cf9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171035127047620658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even with rates of new homes slipping by as much as 4% the crowd just does not seem to be knocking at the front door. What is a disturbing tendency in all of this is the fact that there are over &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080225/economy.html"&gt;4 million homes&lt;/a&gt; unsold and with the current rates of home sales, we may well have to wait for nearly 10 months to clear up the deck. &lt;br /&gt;Naturally when things are bleak, we are always told to look for the silver lining. So far the only one that I can find is the fact that I could afford that mansion at Bel-air, if I wanted to, but then again that would mean locking up my funds in an already cash strapped market. That is the quandary that every consumer finds himself or herself in at the moment!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-9044036985311941268?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080225/economy.html' title='Homes humping the economy down?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/9044036985311941268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=9044036985311941268' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/9044036985311941268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/9044036985311941268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/homes-humping-economy-down.html' title='Homes humping the economy down?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8M0_Py9iCI/AAAAAAAABHg/rEYRkVX4GE4/s72-c/456440_a3259.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7359331774779317566</id><published>2008-02-25T12:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:10.442-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='indian stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='card processor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shares'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit cards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='visa card'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ipo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='public'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='company'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Visa soon to go public!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8Mubfy9iBI/AAAAAAAABHY/0FQ2W0sCQew/s1600-h/410245_d9061.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8Mubfy9iBI/AAAAAAAABHY/0FQ2W0sCQew/s400/410245_d9061.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171027847078053906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visa has announced its plans top go public and this may well turn out to be the largest IPO offering by a card processor. This may not be the best of times to go public with the economy being as it is, but with &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080225/visa_ipo.html"&gt;Visa&lt;/a&gt;, its presence in the markets worldwide should increase the demand for Visa shares , if not by American consumers then by international ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visa has made its plans and its announcement is bound to shake up the market a bit. Maybe, even a bit of the optimism that is reflected in the Visa’s offering could spill over onto the market at large and perhaps, that is a big perhaps, we may well see the Dollar do well in the coming days. Visa is planning to offer upwards of 400 million shares at the $30-$40 range with a neat option for the underwriters for some handy stock of the ‘Visa magic’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the moment, &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080225/visa_ipo.html"&gt;consumer confidence&lt;/a&gt; has hit some choppy waters and it is going to take something for the consumers to purchase the Visa shares. Even if the Visa IPO were to hit the low ranges, it could still surpass the target area left by its arch rival Mastercard a couple of years back when it went IPO. What is the outlook for investors as far as Visa goes? If the investors cop a loss on the Visa IPO, then in all probability the company would introduce ‘bonus shares’ to offset any loss that may have been incurred by an investor and also this way, the company can maintain customer confidence in the company. This seems to be the most popular route that is taken by IPO’s that end up getting priced lower as a result of economic pressures. All eyes are on the IPO especially to see who are going to be the underwriters on this one.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7359331774779317566?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080225/visa_ipo.html' title='Visa soon to go public!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7359331774779317566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7359331774779317566' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7359331774779317566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7359331774779317566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/visa-soon-to-go-public.html' title='Visa soon to go public!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R8Mubfy9iBI/AAAAAAAABHY/0FQ2W0sCQew/s72-c/410245_d9061.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-281693745567374824</id><published>2008-02-21T15:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-21T16:13:58.575-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='id theft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='code'/><title type='text'>The ID security!</title><content type='html'>These are days when our id gets stolen right under our very noses and there was not much we could do anything about it. Our ID used to get stolen in various ways from Phishing to hacking, think 'The net' and you will get my meaning.&lt;br /&gt;I often felt alarmed whenever I checked my bank details on the net, always fearing an 'ID attack'. Then I came across this site and I think that it is safe to say that we can all say goodbye to such fears. This site provides its clients with various tools to protect their identities and they are quite effective at doing just that. This site also offers its visitors a &lt;a href="http://www.lifelockpromotioncode.net"&gt;LifeLock Promo Code&lt;/a&gt; that the visitors can utilize to get a huge discounts on the services that this site has to offer us.&lt;br /&gt;This site also secures your id up to one million dollars and takes every measure that it has to in order to protect your id. You can go to their site and try out their &lt;a href="http://www.lifelockpromotioncode.net"&gt;Life Lock Promo Code&lt;/a&gt; and do a dry run on this site and the various services that they have to offer.&lt;br /&gt;With the criminals of this world getting bolder by the day, it is time that we all took some extra measures like the &lt;a href="http://www.lifelockpromotioncode.net"&gt;Life Lock Promotion Code&lt;/a&gt; in order to protect ourselves from any more id theft of any kind!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-281693745567374824?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/281693745567374824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=281693745567374824' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/281693745567374824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/281693745567374824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/id-security.html' title='The ID security!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8985283251921688784</id><published>2008-02-18T14:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:11.105-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='essential'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goods'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free trade pact'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Oil on the rise on expectations of weaker demand!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7oF0Py9h7I/AAAAAAAABGo/gRXN0hdlUzE/s1600-h/474103_1613c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7oF0Py9h7I/AAAAAAAABGo/gRXN0hdlUzE/s400/474103_1613c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168449917512681394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the oil prices on the rise again, the OPEC has taken the new move in an effort to shore up its losses against a perceived loss. If that sounds a mouthful, the OPEC is playing with the Crystal ball and it seems that the ball is telling them that all is not golden on the Oil front.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OPEC seems to have seen the future and has started moving towards a possible cut in the output. Naturally, this has set the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080218/oil_prices.html"&gt;Oil prices&lt;/a&gt; on the move once again and this time they are planning to stay up for a long while. As a private consortium, the OPEC is free to do what it wants but it should also take note that any such moves aimed only at shoring up its profits is going to increase the strident voices that are opposed to the amount of power that OPEC wields.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These voices have been getting strident of late and with reason, with the Oil prices pretty much dictating the prices of other essential items from food to clothing, more and more countries are becoming uneasy with the fact that OPEC still acts as a private body, one that controls a huge amount of power. There is talk of bringing the OPEC under the direct authority of the United Nations, one that may well see the Oil prices being regulated and the production units becoming more productive!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-8985283251921688784?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080218/oil_prices.html' title='Oil on the rise on expectations of weaker demand!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/8985283251921688784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=8985283251921688784' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8985283251921688784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8985283251921688784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/oil-on-rise-on-expectations-of-weaker.html' title='Oil on the rise on expectations of weaker demand!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7oF0Py9h7I/AAAAAAAABGo/gRXN0hdlUzE/s72-c/474103_1613c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-546238697205123686</id><published>2008-02-18T13:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:11.277-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money portal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='all days'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='calcutta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='processing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='delhi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='western union'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chennai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pound'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='payment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metros'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money exchangers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mumbai'/><title type='text'>Western Union takes the cake!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7n1Jvy9h6I/AAAAAAAABGg/hUGG5kWEtbM/s1600-h/407282_08bac.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7n1Jvy9h6I/AAAAAAAABGg/hUGG5kWEtbM/s400/407282_08bac.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168431595182196642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, a friend of mine sent me some money as a present and he sent the same through WU. At first, I thought that all this 'fast service' was more of a joke than anything else. Anyway, I went to the nearest &lt;a href="http://www.westernunion.com/globalPortal.asp"&gt;Western Union&lt;/a&gt; office and was very pleasantly surprised when I was able to take delivery of the payment without any hassle whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The recent move by Western Union to open shop 24*7 in all four major metros all over India has helped a long way in dealing with this problem of money delivery. Normally, one would have to go to the bank to take delivery of one's payment but with all banks having a strict timeline in which to do business, it is not often that one can take delivery of such payment after working hours. But thanks to Western Union, even that is taken care of with their offices being open 24*7. So, if it is 10 pm and you want to take delivery of a Western Union payment after working hours, well, that is no problem at all, as long as you are in one of the 4 major metros in India!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-546238697205123686?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.westernunion.com/globalPortal.asp' title='Western Union takes the cake!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/546238697205123686/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=546238697205123686' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/546238697205123686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/546238697205123686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/western-union-takes-cake.html' title='Western Union takes the cake!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7n1Jvy9h6I/AAAAAAAABGg/hUGG5kWEtbM/s72-c/407282_08bac.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-5022670580477049909</id><published>2008-02-14T14:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:11.915-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bargain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='furniture'/><title type='text'>The furniture for the price!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7YD9tVu9sI/AAAAAAAABF4/Z2kWcmU_i_o/s1600-h/465032_14128.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7YD9tVu9sI/AAAAAAAABF4/Z2kWcmU_i_o/s400/465032_14128.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167321981131880130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The days of getting specialized furniture for the house is long gone. This is the age of the retail market and as such, most of the furniture that we need can be had for a throwaway price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All that one needs to know is where to shop for them and to do some research and see if there are any special offers on the said furniture. I did exactly that and while doing so, I came across this site. At first, I thought that this site was one of your 'run of the mill' furniture sites but then again, once I checked out the site, I changed my opinion pretty quick. This site is the one to go to if you want to purchase some of the &lt;a href="http://www.modernlinefurniture.com"&gt;modern furniture&lt;/a&gt; at very little cost to you. Say goodbye to the 'Louis' furniture and say hello to the 21st century. Check this site out for some of the great bargains that you are probably going to get on some of the most attractive pieces of furniture. What makes this site really stand out is the way that it is designed, so that we should be able to check out all of their stock with as little trouble as possible!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-5022670580477049909?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/5022670580477049909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=5022670580477049909' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/5022670580477049909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/5022670580477049909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/furniture-for-price.html' title='The furniture for the price!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7YD9tVu9sI/AAAAAAAABF4/Z2kWcmU_i_o/s72-c/465032_14128.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2633378248888942815</id><published>2008-02-12T16:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-12T16:14:31.689-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><title type='text'>The Online casino ride!</title><content type='html'>These are the days where one can really win a good amount of money at places like this &lt;a href="http://www.joylandcasino.com"&gt;online casino&lt;/a&gt;. For starters, it offers all members a start up bonus of $808 and in addition to that new bonuses are announced from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just checked this site out and I have to say that the design is really impressive. One of the things that we have to look out for in &lt;a href="http://www.joylandcasino.com"&gt;casino games&lt;/a&gt; is the way in which it has been designed. The reason behind this is that if the games are well designed as they are here, then they are much easier to play with. Therefore, as players we should not run into any problems here. This &lt;a href="http://www.joylandcasino.com"&gt;virtual casino&lt;/a&gt; runs promos now and then so make sure to check the site for such offers, which you can do by clicking on the links above!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2633378248888942815?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2633378248888942815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2633378248888942815' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2633378248888942815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2633378248888942815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/online-casino-ride.html' title='The Online casino ride!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6560654284043607931</id><published>2008-02-12T15:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:12.160-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bearish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='warren buffett'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bullish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Wall Street gets jittery as the bond insurers reject Buffett's offer!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7Iwp9Vu9pI/AAAAAAAABFg/baJMmEL07yM/s1600-h/368800_cc783.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7Iwp9Vu9pI/AAAAAAAABFg/baJMmEL07yM/s400/368800_cc783.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166245219945870994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080212/buffett_muni_bonds.html"&gt;Wall Street&lt;/a&gt; had rallied on the news that Buffett offered to prop up the Bond insurers and most of us, including me had thought that the insurers must be singing to the heavens. But all of us were mistaken as the second bond insurer had just rebuffed Buffett's offer, no pun intended!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the bond insurers do not seem to be too eager to bite at Buffett's bait, the Wall Street is already showing signs of getting bearish for the rest of the day. With such news in the offing, all one can say is that the Bear is going to have a field day tomorrow and all that one can do is to roll the dice and look up to the stars for some inspiration!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6560654284043607931?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080212/buffett_muni_bonds.html' title='Wall Street gets jittery as the bond insurers reject Buffett&apos;s offer!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6560654284043607931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6560654284043607931' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6560654284043607931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6560654284043607931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/wall-street-gets-jittery-as-bond.html' title='Wall Street gets jittery as the bond insurers reject Buffett&apos;s offer!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7Iwp9Vu9pI/AAAAAAAABFg/baJMmEL07yM/s72-c/368800_cc783.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7547875114670680408</id><published>2008-02-12T15:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-12T15:28:32.750-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='promotion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identity'/><title type='text'>The discount code on Id!</title><content type='html'>I am sure that most of you must have seen Sandra bullock in the movie 'The Net'. As much as we would like to think that it was all fiction and can never be true, we would all end up being unpleasantly surprised. These days our identity can be stolen right under our very noses and we would not even realize that it is all happening until all is over. With the speed of the internet increasing day by day, the speed with which criminals can hijack our id to steal from us has increased as well. That is why we all need to protect ourselves from harm by using the services of such devices as the &lt;a href="http://www.lifelockpromotioncode.net"&gt;Life Lock&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One may think that only the rich and the famous like the Hilton sisters could afford such a premium service to prevent their id from being stolen. Well, you could be wrong, as &lt;a href="http://www.lifelockpromotioncode.net"&gt;LifeLock&lt;/a&gt; provides their services at some of the most attractive rates in the market. Also, in addition to providing services to protect our identity, they also ensure that our id does not get stolen to the tune of one Million dollars, think of it as Id insurance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This site also offers discount codes and what is more, here at &lt;a href="http://www.lifelockpromotioncode.net"&gt;LifeLock.com&lt;/a&gt; they believe in providing the best at the least cost. So, if you want to protect your identity without much hassle to your bank balance, then click on the links and avail yourself of the discount!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7547875114670680408?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7547875114670680408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7547875114670680408' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7547875114670680408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7547875114670680408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/discount-code-on-id.html' title='The discount code on Id!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2575030291245521790</id><published>2008-02-12T14:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:12.310-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shares'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='warren buffett'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hedge funds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bonds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reserve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Wall street rises on Buffett promises!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7IldtVu9oI/AAAAAAAABFY/-8Y2PRia-og/s1600-h/472627_e76c2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7IldtVu9oI/AAAAAAAABFY/-8Y2PRia-og/s400/472627_e76c2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166232914864567938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, the bond insurers must be feeling like the manna has started pouring, and one cannot really blame them for feeling that way after all that they have been through in the last few weeks. With the news that &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080212/wall_street.html"&gt;Buffett&lt;/a&gt; has promised to help ease their money problems, the bond insurers are feeling a little bit easier to breathe these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not that this means that all the problems are over, but just that money has finally started to flow in a little bit to allow everyone to take a little time off. With this news, the Wall Street has started to rally. It seems that any news that is good these days seems to push the market upwards and anything that is even the least bit negative has the opposite result. One can almost imagine that the Markets have become overly sentimental as a result of the recent upheavals. Either way, the momentum for today seems to be good and one can only hope that it carries over for tomorrow as well!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2575030291245521790?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080212/wall_street.html' title='Wall street rises on Buffett promises!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2575030291245521790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2575030291245521790' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2575030291245521790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2575030291245521790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/wall-street-rises-on-buffett-promises.html' title='Wall street rises on Buffett promises!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R7IldtVu9oI/AAAAAAAABFY/-8Y2PRia-og/s72-c/472627_e76c2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7312216994721034272</id><published>2008-02-11T14:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-11T14:56:55.296-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='identity'/><title type='text'>Id theft and money!</title><content type='html'>This is the age of the internet and as such it has left us vulnerable to id theft on a scale that is truly staggering. Of course, the Internet has become an intergral parrt of our lives today and none of us can imagine a world without it. Our careers all have to relate to the internet in one way or the other. One can say that the internet has truly taken us into a whole new realm. Be that as it may,it has also shown the criminals out there new ways to commit id theft and to steal our money. Which is why we all need the services of &lt;a href="http://www.idtheftquiz.org"&gt;LifeLock&lt;/a&gt; in one way or the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These days it is so easy to assume someone else's identity, the people we chat with online,half of them are not who they say they are. What is more, our identity can be so easily stolen that it would be quite some time before we realise that it has been stolen along with our money in our accounts. Which is why, it is better to utilize the services of an id protection company like &lt;a href="http://www.idtheftquiz.org"&gt;Life Lock&lt;/a&gt; before anything like that takes place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This company gaurentees your identity up to 1,000,000$ and they are really good at what they do. With all sorts of 'trojans','phishing' and etc being available for any criminal to use to steal our identity we truly do need the services of &lt;a href="http://www.idtheftquiz.org"&gt;LifeLock.com&lt;/a&gt;. So check it out before it is too late!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7312216994721034272?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7312216994721034272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7312216994721034272' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7312216994721034272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7312216994721034272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/id-theft-and-money.html' title='Id theft and money!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-3594811484205644324</id><published>2008-02-07T13:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T13:55:52.271-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='forex'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>The Forex magnet!</title><content type='html'>The Forex market attracts investors from all walks of life like a magnet. The thing about Forex market is that it reflects all the latest trends in the currency market from the way that one currency is valued over that of another. The neat thing about this marrket is that there is money to be made here almost every single day and that the market is open 24*7. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this market is a little bit to understand with so many trandes going on and with so many variables that we being used to predict the movements of the market it can be a little tough for a layman to understand the nitty gritties of the market. Which is why we need a site like the one to give us the latest &lt;a href="http://www.forexreviews.com/"&gt;Forex Reviews&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This site does a whole lot more than that, it allows us to have the very latest forex news,&lt;a href="http://www.forexreviews.com/brokers/other-broker-reviews.html"&gt;Forex Broker Reviews&lt;/a&gt;, the latest currency quotes and the newsmakers that will move the markets. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here at this site, tutorials are available so that any person can learn about the forex market and all the movements here. There is no one single way to predict this market as there are a whole lot of variables that come into play here.&lt;br /&gt;But with the help of this site and the &lt;a href="http://www.forexreviews.com/strategy/other-strategy-reviews.html"&gt;Forex Strategy Reviews&lt;/a&gt; that are available for its members, even a lay person should have no problems in navigating this market. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The forex market is not for the weak hearted and it definitely is a market for all those who want to invest money and make a good returns on their investment. So all in all &lt;a href="http://www.forexreviews.com/"&gt;Visit Forex Reviews now to become a better trader&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-3594811484205644324?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/3594811484205644324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=3594811484205644324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3594811484205644324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3594811484205644324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/forex-magnet.html' title='The Forex magnet!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6342285350459749498</id><published>2008-02-07T13:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T13:44:57.721-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer data'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jobs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='labor market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>The labor market still under strain?</title><content type='html'>With the economy barely staggering along one would have hoped that things would at least look a little bit brighter in the labor market but that does not seem to be the case as the number of jobless has not decreased as per the expectations of the markets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reality, one can say that the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080207/economy.html"&gt;labor market&lt;/a&gt; is stagnating and that is not good news, which ever way you swing it. All that it indicates is that the companies in general do not want to over spread themselves and that they are all bracing for more bad news. One can counter that by saying that corporate america is being pessimistic but then again none of us can really agree as to whether a glass is half full or half empty. Lets hope that the labor market shows some signs of revival soon!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6342285350459749498?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080207/economy.html' title='The labor market still under strain?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6342285350459749498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6342285350459749498' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6342285350459749498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6342285350459749498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/labor-market-still-under-strain.html' title='The labor market still under strain?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-3132399954864430405</id><published>2008-02-07T08:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T09:20:25.695-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='phd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paper'/><title type='text'>The Phd writer!</title><content type='html'>Writing is not an easy thing to do as we all have these thoughts in our head but with no direction, it is often difficult to put these thoughts to paper. That said, it may be a good idea to use the &lt;a href="http://phdworks.org"&gt;writing services&lt;/a&gt; provided by this company. &lt;br /&gt;This site provides us with all the help that we need as far as writing services go, they provide us all the help we need with our writing,editing and proofreading needs. These days the Universities are getting more and more demanding and as it is, we may need all the help that we can get when it comes to preparing our research paper. This site provides help for students at all levels and as such they also provide us with &lt;a href="http://phdworks.org/blog/2008/02/01/research-paper-for-sale-get-discount/"&gt;research paper for sale&lt;/a&gt;. This does not mean that they do the research for us and that we can later submit them, that will be plagiarism. But what these guys do is that they provide us with examples of research paper that we need so that we may have the required direction to prepare our own research paper.&lt;br /&gt;That said, these guys do provide us with all the help that we may need be it a thesis paper or a writing assignment or for a &lt;a href="http://phdworks.org/blog/2008/02/01/literature-term-paper-writing/"&gt;Literature term paper&lt;/a&gt;, they come through in flying colors. Want to check them out?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-3132399954864430405?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/3132399954864430405/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=3132399954864430405' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3132399954864430405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3132399954864430405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/phd-writer.html' title='The Phd writer!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-9032611070768813107</id><published>2008-02-07T08:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-07T08:48:03.135-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housing rates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housing market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='retail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='houses'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Best time to buy houses?</title><content type='html'>With the &lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/104370/Time-to-Purchase-a-House?"&gt;housing market&lt;/a&gt; seeing a really dismal season, things may turn out to be the best time to buy houses. With not many people coming forward to purchase any new homes this may be the best time to buy houses as both the developers and builders alike are getting desperate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can start off by quoting the lowest price you can think of and given the current situation, that may just be enough to clinch the deal for your dream house. With the current scenario, this may just be the trick for you to get that dream house of yours for a throwaway price.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-9032611070768813107?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/104370/Time-to-Purchase-a-House?' title='Best time to buy houses?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/9032611070768813107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=9032611070768813107' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/9032611070768813107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/9032611070768813107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/best-time-to-buy-houses.html' title='Best time to buy houses?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8013541261187764926</id><published>2008-02-01T15:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:12.834-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='glasses'/><title type='text'>The framed look!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R6OsQHsZKII/AAAAAAAABDA/GlKbg8Qh364/s1600-h/t_518_06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R6OsQHsZKII/AAAAAAAABDA/GlKbg8Qh364/s400/t_518_06.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162158990839851138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With glasses being the rage these days, with almost everyone wearing them these days, it has become a selling point to make sure that the latest treands are reflected in ones glasses. The place that one can get the latest wear in glasses at very low rates is none other than Zenni opticals. Here one can get the very latest in &lt;a href="http://www.ZenniOptical.com"&gt;Zenni Optical $8 Rx Glasses&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rates are quite low here when compared to the other shops and one of the main reason is that these guys manufacture and sell their own frames. Here there is no midleman and everything is sold directly to us, sop you can say that this is indeed the &lt;a href="http://www.ZenniOptical.com"&gt;Best Thing Found: Zenni Optical&lt;/a&gt;. The frames here are so good that it is very tempting to just go in and buy a pair of glasses even if one does not need them. All in all, this is indeed a &lt;a href="http://www.ZenniOptical.com"&gt;Great Discovery: Zenni Optical&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-8013541261187764926?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/8013541261187764926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=8013541261187764926' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8013541261187764926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8013541261187764926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/02/framed-look.html' title='The framed look!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R6OsQHsZKII/AAAAAAAABDA/GlKbg8Qh364/s72-c/t_518_06.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-3344124538950471738</id><published>2008-01-29T15:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T11:10:23.715-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housing rates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housing market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='billion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog for money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='employment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interests'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tax rebates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>$146 Billion package passed by the house!</title><content type='html'>The stimulus plan of George bush has been passed and for the common man on the street this means tax rebates from $600-$1200. The stimulus package is one that had been designed in a hurry and the &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080129/ap_on_go_co/economy_stimulus"&gt;markets&lt;/a&gt; do not like it all that much. I have to say that I cannot blame in this; my personal opinion is that this stimulus package is too short sighted and it seems to serve more as a band aid to an all ready hemorraging economy than a cure for what ails it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For one, it still does not address the huge problem of the &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080129/ap_on_go_co/economy_stimulus"&gt;credit crunch&lt;/a&gt; as well as that of the housing market, both of which are still intent on riding the economy far in to the doldrums. For one, had the administration envisioned a plan by which the housing rates were regulated and bought more pressure on the banks to increase their lending, that would have taken care of half of the problem. As it is, the housing market and the credit crisis barely got a mention in the 'state of the union' speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that we can all agree that George bush has some really good writers on his team and I am sure that they must have devoted whole sections of the state of the union speech to the current problems. I am betting that George bush forgot all about it and meandered on. Either way, the current stimulus plan is kind of like the 'Watergate' episode and they are still yet to learn that there is no point in closing the barn door long after the horses have escaped!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-3344124538950471738?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080129/ap_on_go_co/economy_stimulus' title='$146 Billion package passed by the house!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/3344124538950471738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=3344124538950471738' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3344124538950471738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3344124538950471738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/146-billion-package-passed-by-house.html' title='$146 Billion package passed by the house!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-5602232135579941717</id><published>2008-01-24T17:18:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-24T17:27:05.842-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='employee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recruiting'/><title type='text'>The perfect employee!</title><content type='html'>These days getting good employees is getting harder and harder and that is just the least of the worries that most of the top companies face these days. One of the ways to overcome this short fall in the staff is to acquire the services of a top notch agency like the kind that A.E.Feldman and associates are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These guys are the best in the field of recruitment and they make sure that each and every one of the employees they place are the best ones for that job. The recruiters here specialise in various fields from risk management services, legal and legal support services, communications and technology, human resources consulting, and luxury products. They make sure that the people they recruit for positions in the fields given above are the best fit in the entire industry. In short, these guys aim for nothing less than the best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are looking to hire someone for &lt;a href="http://www.aefeldman.com/areas/financial/"&gt;risk management jobs&lt;/a&gt;, then these are the guys to talk to. What is more, the A.E.F recruitment powerhouse has been ding this for so long, that you can be sure that any employee that you hire from them will be the best,no questions asked. So, if you are hunting for that perfect employee, then these are the guys to talk to!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-5602232135579941717?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/5602232135579941717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=5602232135579941717' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/5602232135579941717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/5602232135579941717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/perfect-employee.html' title='The perfect employee!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8933775195413449279</id><published>2008-01-17T16:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T16:58:20.964-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='program'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='audio ads'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate'/><title type='text'>The Audio beacon and the program!</title><content type='html'>These days the ads are getting more and more creative and with good reason. For one the &lt;a href="http://hostingaudioads.com"&gt;competition&lt;/a&gt; is getting so ruthless that one needs to stand out in order to get an edge over ones competition. Well, the advertising methods are also evolving , now we have the new wave of ads coming to us in the form of the audio ads. These ads are basically in the form of audio messages, which each and every visitor to your site would hear. The best part is that until now we had all depended on ad sense as an income stream but with this site and the new wave of ads, that need not be the case anymore.&lt;br /&gt;Along with the new ads, we also get a &lt;a href="http://web-audio-ads.net"&gt;affiliate program&lt;/a&gt; as well. The affiliate program is open only until 2/1 and it has three levels and a lifetime residual income program as well. With these ads your site would stand out in the pack and as a result would get mpre visitors coming to your webpage.&lt;br /&gt;So, if you are looking for ways to make your site stand out and earn money at the same time, then you should click on the links above and visit us!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-8933775195413449279?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/8933775195413449279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=8933775195413449279' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8933775195413449279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8933775195413449279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/audio-beacon-and-program.html' title='The Audio beacon and the program!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6494059370536229237</id><published>2008-01-17T16:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T16:44:12.883-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How much worth is the rupee these days?</title><content type='html'>This is one query for which I have no answer. For one thing, the dollar seems to be gainsaying in value these days, taking quite a beating from all the other currencies ion the market. But when it comes to the rupee, each and every time it gains against the dollar the RBI steps in and stores it to status quo. Everyone is following the Japaneses lesson these days!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6494059370536229237?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6494059370536229237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6494059370536229237' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6494059370536229237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6494059370536229237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-much-worth-is-rupee-these-days.html' title='How much worth is the rupee these days?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8626451134467359457</id><published>2008-01-16T13:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T13:44:09.172-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ads'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affiliate'/><title type='text'>The audio affiliates!</title><content type='html'>The new age of the Internet and naturally things are changing at a rapid pace, it is getting to be really difficult to keep up. We have all heard of Ad sense ads and either we use them on our sites or end up clicking on some of the ads on someone Else's site. But now, here come the new version of advertising with the audio ads.This site, besides offering the new version of the audio ads also offers some really fantastic affiliate programs as well; this way we get to &lt;a href="http://audioadhosting.com"&gt;Earn from every visitor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The great thing about this program is that we do not have to get clicks in order to make some money but rather every visitor to our site will start the cash register to ring for us.More more innovative ways of getting our attention is being created every single day and you can say that the audio ads are one neat way of doing exactly that.This site besides offering an affiliate program also enables its members to earn from 3 tiers of income and the lifetime residuals that is available here. You can be sure that with these guys, your site will stand out in more ways than one. Also, this site is tied up with at least 5 major search engines so you can be sure that your site will indeed get more exposure as well. So, become an affiliate soon and &lt;a href="http://web-audio-ads.net"&gt;Earn from every visitor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-8626451134467359457?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/8626451134467359457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=8626451134467359457' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8626451134467359457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8626451134467359457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/audio-affiliates.html' title='The audio affiliates!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-103791971742952661</id><published>2008-01-13T14:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:12.990-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goldman sachs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='central banks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carry over'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inflation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Recession inevitable, says Goldman Sachs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4qQq_jxsbI/AAAAAAAABAg/MT5oolGo3gE/s1600-h/118673_a7ab4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4qQq_jxsbI/AAAAAAAABAg/MT5oolGo3gE/s400/118673_a7ab4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155091791769350578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With all the indications of a meltdown at Wall street and the unemployment rate growing by the day, it seems that the chances of a recession hitting the United states has grown from 25% to that of 50%. With record numbers of defaulters on Mortgage payments, the banks are tightening the strings on all loans and other forms of credit. With the Dollar taking the plunge to new lows against a whole range of currencies, it is no wonder that most of the economists worldwide are predicting that the Recession has indeed began in the United states.&lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080113/recession_odds.htmlv"&gt;Goldman Sachs&lt;/a&gt; believes the recession to be inevitable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question that everyone is asking themselves is as whether the U.S economy is strong enough to withstand the cold weather than seems to be ahead. The one thing that the president and his board of advisers are hoping to do is to reduce the taxes with the hope that this will rejuvenate the economy. By itself, it may not, but coupled with the Fed cut that is expected to happen by the end of this month, it may well give that much needed boost to the economy at large.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fed is hoping that a cut, even as much as 50 basis points may be what the doctor has ordered. But the Fed should also take care to remember that reducing the interest rates by a large margin could have a very negative impact on the whole. The days ahead will surely tell us if the recession has set in or not. It is no longer a question of 'will it happen' but rather a question of 'when will it happen'.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-103791971742952661?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080113/recession_odds.html' title='Recession inevitable, says Goldman Sachs'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/103791971742952661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=103791971742952661' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/103791971742952661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/103791971742952661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/recession-inevitable-says-goldman-sachs.html' title='Recession inevitable, says Goldman Sachs'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4qQq_jxsbI/AAAAAAAABAg/MT5oolGo3gE/s72-c/118673_a7ab4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7943489751226168654</id><published>2008-01-13T13:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-13T14:01:20.845-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metals'/><title type='text'>Gold, the perfect investment these days!</title><content type='html'>With the Dollar, taking quite a battering in the currency markets, Gold seems to be reaching for all new heights. The current rate for the Yellow metal seems to have touched $900 an ounce. One would have thought that the high price tag would have depressed the demand for this metal, but on the contrary it seems to be going up and up. Gold is one of the few investments that you can call a 'safe bet'.&lt;br /&gt;On that note, the company that you should consult before you make any purchases in the metal markets is the Monex deposit company [MDC], the world leader in metal investments worldwide. This company is a part of the Monex group of companies and one of the most reputable that you would find in the metals market.&lt;br /&gt;They have been dealing in the metals market, in both gold and silver &lt;a href="http://monex.com/prods/gold.html"&gt;bullion&lt;/a&gt;, as well as coins and ingots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The demand for gold and silver is never going to go down and as such, the world stockpiles of the same are fast disappearing. Naturally this is the time to invest in the metals market and through the MDC, you can get both silver and gold coins or you can also opt to get them in the ingots form. This company will make sure that you get the very best quality metals and also at the best prices possible. They have a wide network of traders placed at almost all the major metal markets all oer the world and are well placed to advice as well as purchase any metals on your behalf.This company certainly believes in putting the customer first and as such, you will indeed be getting the very best that the MDC has to offer you!&lt;br /&gt;This is sponsored by blogitive!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7943489751226168654?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7943489751226168654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7943489751226168654' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7943489751226168654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7943489751226168654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/gold-perfect-investment-these-days.html' title='Gold, the perfect investment these days!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-817971685255726516</id><published>2008-01-13T13:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-13T13:26:12.447-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='data'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housing market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer data'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='retail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earnings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mortages'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Wall street turns bleary eyes on to info for next week!</title><content type='html'>With all the battering that the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080113/wall_street_week_ahead.html"&gt;Wall street&lt;/a&gt; had taken over the last few days, it has turned its bleary eyes on to the information like the earnings data,retail sales and the inflation data to get an inkling as to where the markets are headed. But the thing about asking for information is that it may well confirm that recession is already here.&lt;br /&gt;Either way, it is going to be one roller coaster ride and there are not that many takers for the idea of the marker shaking of the 'Bear grip' that it seems to be currently under. With more and more banks coming out with fresh news as to their exposure to the Mortgage crisis, the last thing that the Wall street may need is to know that the companies are cash strapped.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, ignorance is a bliss and that may well be the case for the Wall street this week. With indicators already pointing to the red, the ride, it seems, will be heading right to the sub levels of the financial markets.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-817971685255726516?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080113/wall_street_week_ahead.html' title='Wall street turns bleary eyes on to info for next week!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/817971685255726516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=817971685255726516' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/817971685255726516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/817971685255726516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/wall-street-turns-bleary-eyes-on-to.html' title='Wall street turns bleary eyes on to info for next week!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1939483406249109373</id><published>2008-01-13T12:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-13T13:00:47.048-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='build'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jobs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='construction'/><title type='text'>Building your skills up?</title><content type='html'>When it comes to the field of construction, there are not that many resources of information that one can utilise to forward ones career in it. As it is, this site is one of the best that I have come across that has some really solid information on construction and not just that, but it also gives you pointers as to how to go about and get your licence as well.&lt;br /&gt;These days, the competition for jobs, all jobs is getting to be pretty ruthless as it is. With the rate of development that seems to be taking place, there are some really great openings in the field of construction, but getting hold of them is not as easy as it sounds. For one, you may need to be licenced in order to get an edge over your competitors for that job. This site provides information on &lt;a href="http://www.cskills.org/traininglearning/trainingqualifications/"&gt;employment training&lt;/a&gt; that is not just needed but also essential. As you log onto the site, you can also see the various health and safety tips that are given here as well. This site is here to provide a lending hand to many a beginner, so my advice would be to check out the site and make use of the information that is listed there!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1939483406249109373?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1939483406249109373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1939483406249109373' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1939483406249109373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1939483406249109373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/building-your-skills-up.html' title='Building your skills up?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7353120160993845861</id><published>2008-01-13T11:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:13.279-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='strategy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fossil fuel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nuclear energy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='india'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='source'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='energy'/><title type='text'>The cost of Nuclear transparency!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4pz_vjxsZI/AAAAAAAABAQ/vo8RleeH6e4/s1600-h/153662_289b8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4pz_vjxsZI/AAAAAAAABAQ/vo8RleeH6e4/s400/153662_289b8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155060262414430610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The World is fast heading the way of the Nuclear power as the Oil just seems to keep on rising and rising. The way that things are shaping up is worrying many an economist as well as strategic analysts out there for a whole lot of reasons. One of their main concerns can be shaped by a single word and that is, ‘Chernobyl’. The one thing that has everyone so worked about is the amount of transparency in the area of &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080113/nuclear_world.html"&gt;Nuclear reactors&lt;/a&gt;. Everyone has a right to be concerned, since any energy company running such reactors would not be interested in coming forward with the necessary details if anything were to go wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; With the price of Oil going up into the stratosphere at more than 100$ a barrel, is it any wonder that most of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_development"&gt;developing world&lt;/a&gt; is taking a deeper look at Nuclear energy as an alternative source of power. With more and more reactors due to come up all across the developing world, it is high time that all the countries got together and ensured that there was total transparency in the running of the nuclear station. That is easier said than done, but the one thing that seems to be paramount on the minds of most of the strategic analysts all over the world is not the very safety of the reactors in question or their viability, but rather the idea of the Nuclear materials being converted for usage as a ‘Dirty bomb’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4p0EvjxsaI/AAAAAAAABAY/ADOFAjxqXE0/s1600-h/122874_1f09c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4p0EvjxsaI/AAAAAAAABAY/ADOFAjxqXE0/s400/122874_1f09c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155060348313776546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way that things are going on, the whole world is turning to the idea of using nuclear power as a dependable and cheap source of energy. What is more, the developing world, with the likes of China and India not wanting the lack of energy to stranglehold their rapid growth rate, are investing in new reactors at a very rapid pace. The world should realize that nuclear energy is a reality and that every country has a right to it. As it is, the developed world should set an example for others top follow by declaring all information relevant to their nuclear reactors, the ones that they are currently using as an alternative source of power and make it public. Only by increasing the transparency can the road ahead to the Nuclear power be a safe one, one that does not replicate the &lt;a href="http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/nuclear.htm"&gt;Chernobyl disaster&lt;/a&gt; at any time whatsoever!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7353120160993845861?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080113/nuclear_world.html' title='The cost of Nuclear transparency!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7353120160993845861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7353120160993845861' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7353120160993845861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7353120160993845861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/cost-of-nuclear-transparency.html' title='The cost of Nuclear transparency!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4pz_vjxsZI/AAAAAAAABAQ/vo8RleeH6e4/s72-c/153662_289b8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-255779298579423470</id><published>2008-01-11T16:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:13.457-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='van'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='united kingdom'/><title type='text'>Insure and drive!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4gR9fjxsVI/AAAAAAAAA_s/kzxofJlACOo/s1600-h/415492_e3f1b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4gR9fjxsVI/AAAAAAAAA_s/kzxofJlACOo/s400/415492_e3f1b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154389521666781522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These days, everyone wants to spend the least amount of time travelling between places and as a result everyone speeds for a variety of reasons. From the 'donut place will be closed if I do not hurry' to ' I have to be at the office about 30 minutes ago', there are any number of reasons, but the end result is the same for a large majority of them, accidents!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People are more in a hurry now than they ever were before. If you are in the United kingdom, then you will know that as strict as the coppers are, there are many who do not give a fig. As a result, it pays to be careful these days when driving anywhere in the United kingdom. And then you have the cases of drunken driving as well as those high on meths. As a result, if you do not have an insurance coverage for say your van,like a &lt;a href="http://www.motordirect.co.uk"&gt;Van Insurance&lt;/a&gt;, then do not even bother taking your vehicle out, it is just not worth it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you say Insurance, half the people are thinking 'How much is it going to cost me?". Well, there are many companies that will bleed you dry under the guise of Insurance, but these guys are the best as far as Insurance goes. They offer the best coverage for the least amount of expenditure. One can say that they are the best &lt;a href="http://www.motordirect.co.uk"&gt;Cheap van insurance&lt;/a&gt; available in the United Kingdom today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is important to note that you get a &lt;a href="http://www.motordirect.co.uk"&gt;UK Van insurance&lt;/a&gt; as any other country insurance coverage may not apply in the United Kingdom, all in all it pays to be safe, so drive carefully and after you have got the required insurance coverage! Drive slow and you get to reach home safely!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-255779298579423470?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/255779298579423470/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=255779298579423470' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/255779298579423470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/255779298579423470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/insure-and-drive.html' title='Insure and drive!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4gR9fjxsVI/AAAAAAAAA_s/kzxofJlACOo/s72-c/415492_e3f1b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6337207273753063915</id><published>2008-01-11T16:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:13.651-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='indian stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housing rates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shares'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='demand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit card'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='supply'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Oil rebounds again inspite of fears of recession!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4gOYfjxsUI/AAAAAAAAA_k/N1edjVEZd3c/s1600-h/380836_a868b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4gOYfjxsUI/AAAAAAAAA_k/N1edjVEZd3c/s400/380836_a868b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154385587476738370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ndtvprofit.com/homepage/storybusinessnew.asp?id=42684&amp;template=&amp;ch=1/11/2008%209:52:00%20PM"&gt;Oil&lt;/a&gt; rebounded today in spite of the fears of the U.S recession. It is the fear that a recession hit United states, may no longer demand that much of the 'Liquid gold' and may also start rationing the fuel out as it did in the past. It was that fear that drove the price tag down and gave a breather for the rest of us. &lt;br /&gt;But now, that breather is all gone and it is back to business as usual. Of course, the recession danger is still not over and with Wall street taking a real hit today, come Monday, the Oil may start to slide all over again. This Tango over the prices and the recession fears looks set to continue for some time as the Dollar goes from weak to weaker still. With Oil going up, the metal markets especially the Gold will respond by going up a few notches itself!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6337207273753063915?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.ndtvprofit.com/homepage/storybusinessnew.asp?id=42684&amp;template=&amp;ch=1/11/2008%209:52:00%20PM' title='Oil rebounds again inspite of fears of recession!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6337207273753063915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6337207273753063915' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6337207273753063915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6337207273753063915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/oil-rebounds-again-inspite-of-fears-of.html' title='Oil rebounds again inspite of fears of recession!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4gOYfjxsUI/AAAAAAAAA_k/N1edjVEZd3c/s72-c/380836_a868b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1286318264094612134</id><published>2008-01-11T14:58:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T16:28:36.799-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elderly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='care'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home'/><title type='text'>The care, we require!</title><content type='html'>These days with the state that the economy is in, it is no wonder that we often have to think a lot when it comes to taking care of our elderly relatives. All of us cannot take care of our relatives all the time, so we often resort to caring nursing homes to help us take care of them. But with the economy being squeezed and the earnings getting smaller and smaller these days, I am sure that we are all thinking of 'budget' economics.&lt;br /&gt;As it is, we need the best care for our old folks/relatives, but so often, the best &lt;a href="http://www.bettercaring.com"&gt;care home&lt;/a&gt; costs a lot. But that is not the case anymore. These guys go out of their way to help us take care of our folks and they do it with such tenderness that it is a relief to know that there are such places still in existence. What is more, their rates are really attractive and would most definitely not put a crimp in your wallet any time soon. So, if you are in need of their services, just click on and visit their place and see for yourself, what I am talking about!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1286318264094612134?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1286318264094612134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1286318264094612134' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1286318264094612134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1286318264094612134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/care-we-require.html' title='The care, we require!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8399612549213190804</id><published>2008-01-11T14:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T16:21:46.402-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hedges'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='europe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='united states'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Wall street hung to dry on Credit worries!</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080111/wall_street.html"&gt;Wall street&lt;/a&gt; got hung to dry today on the fears of a Credit crunch happening all over again. Whoever coined the term 'Black Friday' must have a sense of foreboding if he or she had walked into the treading hall today. On the normal days the trading hall is a mess, today it went way beyond that. With the crunch slamming the markets down, the investors were sent scurrying for cover.&lt;br /&gt;Most of the worries stemmed from a fear of more debt write offs to come, as some of the major banks have already started to do that. And lets not forget the 'Countrywide episode', with that in mind, what started like a normal trading day soon escalated into a sell off! 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So, do you care to wager?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2272596703589504756?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2272596703589504756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2272596703589504756' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2272596703589504756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2272596703589504756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/online-casino-money-maker.html' title='The online casino  money maker!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7412683362269798621</id><published>2008-01-10T13:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:13.990-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rugby'/><title type='text'>The Six nations saga!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4gFf_jxsTI/AAAAAAAAA_c/w3lsLeyCdUM/s1600-h/393663_7a358.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4gFf_jxsTI/AAAAAAAAA_c/w3lsLeyCdUM/s400/393663_7a358.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154375820721107250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.rbs6nations.com/"&gt;rugby game&lt;/a&gt; is one interesting sport to watch, one can be sure that all the games will end up with a boisterous show of strength. It sure reigns over all the other games in the entertainment factor alone. The 6 nations championship is coming soon and the whole of the Rugby world is up in a tizzy!&lt;br /&gt;For the very latest information on Rugby itself, the championship, the teams that are playing in the tournament, the venues and everything else about rugby that you can think of, well, that and so much more can be found at the official site of the 6 nations championship, the RBS 6 nations website. The link is given above and feel free to click on it and check out the very latest on rugby. Do you have any favorite team? or do you have any idea as to which team is best placed to win the championship? Well, to know that and a whole lot more, just click on the link above and watch the latest podcast. 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But, what may be perceived as trouble by others is seen by others as an opportunity to make business, of course, there are many that would probably call them vultures. But that would be a bit rich, who is not trying to make a quick buck these days, even if it is at your neighbor’s expense?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, the recent Mortgage crisis seems to have sent the Bank of America calling on to countrywide Inc, in a bid to purchase the already beleaguered company. This move has sent a sigh of relief through  many of the share holders of the Countrywide stock, as the recent news of the exposure of defaulting mortgage payments sent the stock price of Countrywide go into the basement. 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It is not like we all are born into money and most of us are the middle class and as such, we all have to do what we can in order to have that perfect wedding. And now, with Fifty flowers, our budget worries with regard to the flower arrangement is all taken care of.&lt;br /&gt;This site is just fantastic, for one thing, if you were to buy roses here, you will find that they are priced at a much lesser price than the &lt;a href="http://www.fiftyflowers.com/"&gt;wholesale roses&lt;/a&gt;. That is just one of the things that makes this company every bride's best friend.&lt;br /&gt;This company has streamlined the process and by doing so, it has managed to cut out the wholesaler and the retailer so that the customers can deal directly with the mother ship and not have to buy the flowers at an inflated rate from the retailer.&lt;br /&gt;They deal in almost every kind of flower from roses to calla lilies to Ecuadorean roses as well as flowers from other exotic locations. 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The answer to that question is quite easy, answer: probably never. Especially as their attitude to the War on Iraq is quite well known. Now the United States economy is taking quite a hit and as far as the Bush administration is concerned, the economy is still strong and upbeat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is one thing to be optimistic and but totally another to be taking a walk in the clouds. And now, the treasury secretary comes along and tells us all that the recovery from the Mortgage crisis is not going to be easy - but then again this is something that we already know. What really gets me is that now the Bush administration is mouthing what we already know, it is high time that we saw some concrete action on the ground and by that I do not mean rate cuts. The rate cuts may alleviate some of the crisis but they only tend to make the Dollar weaker in the long run and as such, it is time to start thinking of regulating the Housing market!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7118722477128161474?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080107/paulson_housing.html' title='Paulson says no easy answers to mortgage woes?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7118722477128161474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7118722477128161474' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7118722477128161474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7118722477128161474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/paulson-says-no-easy-answers-to.html' title='Paulson says no easy answers to mortgage woes?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R4J4lvjxruI/AAAAAAAAA60/pqGUFJx4KJ0/s72-c/365253_8ba05.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-484828267850149287</id><published>2008-01-07T10:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T10:53:13.329-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='challenge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='skill'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tournaments'/><title type='text'>Nuts about online backgammon?</title><content type='html'>If that is indeed the case, then you need to read this post. For one, this site is totally into this game in more ways than one and that is the least of it all. The design in this site and the way that the &lt;a href="http://www.gammon-palace.com"&gt;online backgammon&lt;/a&gt; is organised here, sure makes it a delight to play it. The neat design coupled with the easy access and the easy play rules sure makes it all a very interesting experience for anyone who wants to &lt;a href="http://www.gammon-palace.com"&gt;play backgammon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This site comes in six languages and that is saying quite a mouthful, what is more, here at this site, we can get all the latest info that we need on all the backgammon tournaments that is taking place all over the net. The whole package, this entire site, which also gives helpful tips to all the members on improving their play, sure makes this site stand out and makes the &lt;a href="http://www.gammon-palace.com"&gt;backgammon online&lt;/a&gt; experience truly delightful!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-484828267850149287?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/484828267850149287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=484828267850149287' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/484828267850149287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/484828267850149287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/nuts-about-online-backgammon.html' title='Nuts about online backgammon?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-295890638672378777</id><published>2008-01-03T11:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T11:18:47.519-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='search engine'/><title type='text'>The SEO guide!</title><content type='html'>These days almost every webmaster online needs a good &lt;a href="http://www.traficare.com"&gt;seo specialist&lt;/a&gt; if he or she wants their site to get some good quality service. It is all in increasing the visibility of that site and this site manages to do just that quite effectively. This site started providing SEO services for the webmasters since 2004 and they have managed to get spectacular results for their clients.&lt;br /&gt;This site is well designed and it increases its clients visibility by running campaigns, writing,marketing and so much more. The end result being that their client site gets some really good quality visitors and all of it is due to the services provided by the &lt;a href="http://www.traficare.com"&gt;seo expert&lt;/a&gt;. This site, a &lt;a href="http://www.traficare.com"&gt;seo company&lt;/a&gt; is one of the best in the SEO area and if you are in need of some good quality traffic to your site, just click on the links above!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-295890638672378777?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/295890638672378777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=295890638672378777' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/295890638672378777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/295890638672378777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/seo-guide.html' title='The SEO guide!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1916044571223549975</id><published>2008-01-03T10:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T11:09:18.513-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='margins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='essentials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prices'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='range'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='profits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='middle east'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='commodities'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hike'/><title type='text'>Oil goes into new waters!</title><content type='html'>With the price of &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/080102/112107_oil_pay.html?.v=3&amp;.pf=family-home"&gt;Oil&lt;/a&gt; hitting above 100$, it is that time of the year where we should all start looking for alternative means of transportation. With the Oil at new heights and with the middle east in an uneasy condition, one can only wonder how much further is this going to go to.&lt;br /&gt;Of course, all eyes are on the OPEC but going by what they did the last time there was a hike in the Oil price, they would not do much this time either. The cost of the Gasoline has already shot up and naturally the prices of the essential commodities are also getting hiked. Our wallets are growing thin and now with this Oil hike, it is becoming micro, getting by on our salaries is really turning into a struggle of sorts these days.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1916044571223549975?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/080102/112107_oil_pay.html?.v=3&amp;.pf=family-home' title='Oil goes into new waters!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1916044571223549975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1916044571223549975' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1916044571223549975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1916044571223549975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/oil-goes-into-new-waters.html' title='Oil goes into new waters!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-770855583732663078</id><published>2008-01-01T14:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-01T14:08:54.134-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='challenge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tournaments'/><title type='text'>The lure of backgammon!</title><content type='html'>We can play almost any game online and one may think that playing this game online may not be as challenging as the real thing, but the game of &lt;a href="http://www.gammon-fortune.com"&gt;online backgammon&lt;/a&gt; is not just as good as the real thing, but on the whole is a lot more interesting than it.&lt;br /&gt;This site, one that is dedicated to this game totally is very easy to use and anyone should be able to operate it without any hassles. Anyone should be able to &lt;a href="http://www.gammon-fortune.com"&gt;play backgammon&lt;/a&gt; here at this site with no problems and if you do run into some, then you can always ping the customer service and that should get taken care of right away! This site, which is devoted to &lt;a href="http://www.gammon-fortune.com"&gt;backgammon online&lt;/a&gt; is also a site where one can get the latest information about backgammon tournaments, in case one wants to participate in them. Like I said, this is one site that totally believes in spirit of the game altogether.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-770855583732663078?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/770855583732663078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=770855583732663078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/770855583732663078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/770855583732663078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2008/01/lure-of-backgammon.html' title='The lure of backgammon!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-9094397789333269723</id><published>2007-12-31T07:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-31T08:05:18.521-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='companies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jobs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recruiting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='applicant'/><title type='text'>The recruiter's crystal ball!</title><content type='html'>Would it not be great if we all were to know what most of the recruiters are looking for in the applicants and if we could get our dirty,grimy hands on a crystal ball that did just that. It seems that we, job aspirants have finally managed to do just that. The following is what the &lt;a href="http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-recruiter_roundtable_job_resolutions_for_2008-258"&gt;recruiters&lt;/a&gt; are looking for in the new applicants and I have listed them all below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.Skill improvement:&lt;br /&gt;To shape up what ever skills that you may have and to hone it further.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.Stick with your values:&lt;br /&gt;It is always a good thing to stand up for your values and not to change them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.Do not burn bridges:&lt;br /&gt;This is one advice that every job aspirant needs to look into. It is always better to build bridges than burn them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.Present like a Pro:&lt;br /&gt;To be able to present oneself and to do it effectively so that a really good first impression is formed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.Align with your strengths:&lt;br /&gt;To know what your strengths are and to concentrate on them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.Speak up:&lt;br /&gt;This is one thing that almost every new applicant has problems with, so this is one area that they would most definitely have to work on.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-9094397789333269723?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-recruiter_roundtable_job_resolutions_for_2008-258' title='The recruiter&apos;s crystal ball!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/9094397789333269723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=9094397789333269723' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/9094397789333269723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/9094397789333269723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/recruiters-crystal-ball.html' title='The recruiter&apos;s crystal ball!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2575454524972152650</id><published>2007-12-31T07:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-31T07:52:00.265-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dvd player'/><title type='text'>The Calculator that one must have!</title><content type='html'>From the title one may think that this is a calculator for calculating math problems and you would be partly right. it is not about math, but rather a &lt;a href="http://www.magicholdem.com"&gt;poker calculator&lt;/a&gt; that one utilises for calculating the odds in a hand of poker.&lt;br /&gt;This is a must have for all the serious poker players out there, I am one of them and I know that halfway through a hand,I often get confused with calculating the odds and this often led me to make some really dumb mistakes that I normally would not have. &lt;br /&gt;This site is great in the way that it is designed and all, it is very easy to use and its calculator is really fantastic. With the help of this calculator, one can calculate all the &lt;a href="http://www.magicholdem.com"&gt;poker odds&lt;/a&gt; that one needs to know in order to win a hand of Poker.&lt;br /&gt;So if you are one of those serious poker players out there and would really love to get an edge over the other players, then you do most definitely need the &lt;a href="http://www.magicholdem.com"&gt;holdem calculator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2575454524972152650?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2575454524972152650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2575454524972152650' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2575454524972152650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2575454524972152650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/calculator-that-one-must-have.html' title='The Calculator that one must have!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2923052631710984563</id><published>2007-12-26T21:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-26T21:22:25.296-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='turkey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prices'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='united states'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hollywood strike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free trade pact'/><title type='text'>Oil jumps again , this time because of Turkey!</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071226/oil_prices.html"&gt;oil prices&lt;/a&gt; seem more and more exposed to the world politics than it is to the basic economics. These days, anytime there is a strike in any of the middle eastern countries, the immediate perception is that there is going to be a oil supply problem and that the 'Black gold' is going to get more rarer.&lt;br /&gt;All of this is rubbish, of course. It is the case of the man who has too much, he only has too much as long as the rest of the humans want it, so consistent problems on the supply front will cause the demand to drop in the long rum and may also result in the demand disappearing altogether. Of course, this need not be the same in the Oil front, but it is high time that OPEC realises that they should make the necessary corrections to compensate for any such strikes that may take place on any of the middle eastern countries. If they want to consider themselves as a professional organisation, then it is high time that they start acting like it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2923052631710984563?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071226/oil_prices.html' title='Oil jumps again , this time because of Turkey!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2923052631710984563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2923052631710984563' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2923052631710984563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2923052631710984563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/oil-jumps-again-this-time-because-of.html' title='Oil jumps again , this time because of Turkey!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7844573354769429706</id><published>2007-12-23T11:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:15.589-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='engagement rings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wedding rings'/><title type='text'>The engagement rings that one would desire!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R264jqFbKzI/AAAAAAAAA4M/CRUryUq9OEk/s1600-h/diamonds_angel_hearts_263075_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R264jqFbKzI/AAAAAAAAA4M/CRUryUq9OEk/s400/diamonds_angel_hearts_263075_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147254346863029042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When one get to the stage of purchasing &lt;a href="http://www.jamesallen.com"&gt;engagement rings&lt;/a&gt;, one would naturally want the best possible ones that ones money can buy. I have to say that when I went surfing online for rings, I never thought that I would find a site that is do comprehensive as far as rings go. I never thought that one would need to consider tension settings as well, when one is thinking of purchasing rings.&lt;br /&gt;This site is literally like a walk-in-shop with all of your queries answered very quickly. I was looking for just an ordinary ring but I have to say that I am very impressed by the way that this site has listed its products.&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/"&gt;diamonds&lt;/a&gt; are beautiful in their setting in the ring and being a diamond ring, I thought that the pricing would be astronomical, but was I pleasantly surprised.&lt;br /&gt;So, yes, if it is rings that you are after, even &lt;a href="http://www.jamesallen.com/wedding-and-anniversary/"&gt;wedding rings&lt;/a&gt;, then this is the place to come to. By the way, the categories here are just endless and there are also certain collections on display, so if you want to purchase collections like the M.Geller collection, here is where you would have to come to!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7844573354769429706?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7844573354769429706/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7844573354769429706' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7844573354769429706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7844573354769429706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/engagement-rings-that-one-would-desire.html' title='The engagement rings that one would desire!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R264jqFbKzI/AAAAAAAAA4M/CRUryUq9OEk/s72-c/diamonds_angel_hearts_263075_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8534146461878157089</id><published>2007-12-23T10:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:16.004-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grenspan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='president'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='george bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mortgage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sub prime crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='united states'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Recession knockin' on the door of Lady Liberty!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26xoKFbKxI/AAAAAAAAA38/zN64n4BUYUM/s1600-h/bill_bank_note_237313_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26xoKFbKxI/AAAAAAAAA38/zN64n4BUYUM/s400/bill_bank_note_237313_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147246727591045906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government is falling over itself with trying to do its best to prevent any financial crisis, but it is too late to shut the doors after all the horses have bolted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The beginning of the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071223/mortgage_crisis.html"&gt;sub prime crisis&lt;/a&gt; should have put the government on notice, but now, it is just too late to prevent anything from taking place. What has been put into motion cannot be stopped now, all one can do is to go with the flow. Both Martin Feldstein and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan are urging the government to do more to prevent any further escalation. Lets not forget that this is the same Greenspan who said that the sub prime crisis would 'blow away'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26xtqFbKyI/AAAAAAAAA4E/jfFAa8TFpGk/s1600-h/canada_1221846_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26xtqFbKyI/AAAAAAAAA4E/jfFAa8TFpGk/s400/canada_1221846_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147246822080326434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, this is not the time to point fingers, but the time to do a reassessment and see what can be done to prevent anything like this from happening again.&lt;br /&gt;No government is going to hand out money from the treasury to the citizens, but instead what the president can do is to waive the taxes for the affected people and that is just a small step in the right direction. Lets all hope that we do not get into any other war, any time soon, our economy cannot take any more pressure!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/money"&gt;money&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/george+bush"&gt;george bush&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/alan+greenspan"&gt;alan greenspan&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/economy"&gt;economy&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/sub+prime+crisis"&gt;sub prime crisis&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/finance"&gt;finance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.png" width="91" height="17" alt="Digg!" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/networkbadge/scorpius3?icon"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mister-wong.com/add_url/" onClick="location.href=&amp;quot;http://www.mister-wong.com/index.php?action=addurl&amp;bm_url=&amp;quot;+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+&amp;quot;&amp;bm_description=&amp;quot;+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+&amp;quot;&amp;quot;;return false" title="Add this page to Mister Wong" target="_top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.mister-wong.com/img/en/buttons/wongbig06.gif" alt="Add this page to Mister Wong" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-8534146461878157089?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071223/mortgage_crisis.html' title='Recession knockin&apos; on the door of Lady Liberty!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/8534146461878157089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=8534146461878157089' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8534146461878157089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8534146461878157089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/recession-knockin-on-door-of-lady.html' title='Recession knockin&apos; on the door of Lady Liberty!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26xoKFbKxI/AAAAAAAAA38/zN64n4BUYUM/s72-c/bill_bank_note_237313_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6974445234199214652</id><published>2007-12-23T10:00:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-23T10:32:54.447-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mall'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='discounts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cheap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='phone cards'/><title type='text'>The phone card shopping mall!</title><content type='html'>THIS IS A SPONSORED REVIEW!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://tinyurl.com/ystaz7" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These days it makes much more sense to purchase call cards or phone cards before we travel anywhere. These cards, besides allowing us to make the calls from anywhere to any other place in the universe, come with various offers, that your international calls end up becoming dirt cheap.&lt;br /&gt;These guys are what one can possibly term as the 'shopping mall' for all &lt;a href="http://www.getmecallingcards.com"&gt;phone card&lt;/a&gt;, call cards of any size and shape. You can get the very latest cards with huge offers from these guys. They also have the very latest in call cards, the ones with the ANI recognition, that totally makes 'dialing the pin' totally obsolete. These guys carry about 459 different cards from a variety of vendors, it is like walking into a shopping mall, with so many cards, naturally, these guys are the best in the business and definitely the people to go to if you are in need of a card. Just click on the link above and check out their shop, you will know what I mean.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6974445234199214652?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6974445234199214652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6974445234199214652' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6974445234199214652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6974445234199214652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/phone-card-shopping-mall.html' title='The phone card shopping mall!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2688792781367647752</id><published>2007-12-23T09:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:16.514-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grinch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='production'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='telecasts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='networks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dolls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='television'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hollywood strike'/><title type='text'>The News takes a backseat to the Entertainment!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26g9qFbKvI/AAAAAAAAA3s/TysZS_5a2hI/s1600-h/demo_paris_retrait_1032348_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26g9qFbKvI/AAAAAAAAA3s/TysZS_5a2hI/s400/demo_paris_retrait_1032348_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147228405260561138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the winter is on us, one would think that movies like 'The Grinch' would have some impact on both the big studios and the networks. But they are not listening to the common man on the street and what is more, by prolonging the Writers strike, they are only emphasising that they are in this only for themselves.&lt;br /&gt;The sad part of all this is that as a result of this strike, one can say good bye to the Xmas programmes. The winter is blowing hard and cold, the blizzards are on us and the hearts of all the production houses, the networks and the writers has all become solid chunks of ice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26hCaFbKwI/AAAAAAAAA30/ZqRV6OMw7ag/s1600-h/anticpe_paris_bastille_1346884_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26hCaFbKwI/AAAAAAAAA30/ZqRV6OMw7ag/s400/anticpe_paris_bastille_1346884_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147228486864939778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is the turn of the common man to get affected now as we would soon stop seeing our &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071223/ap_on_tv_no_news.html"&gt;favorite programmes&lt;/a&gt;. The funny part is that the networks are all covering up the upcoming gaps with entertainment shows which they had not telecast earlier and have all given the 'bye,bye' to the news programmes. One would think that this would be the time for the networks to come out with more programmes like Panorama and stuff like that, instead we are going to get stuck with pussycat dolls and the likes of such! It is indeed one bleary Christmas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/hollywood"&gt;hollywood&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/strike"&gt;strike&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/grinch"&gt;grinch&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/writers+strike"&gt;writers strike&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/television"&gt;television&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/money"&gt;money&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/finance"&gt;finance&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/production+houses"&gt;production houses&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.png" width="91" height="17" alt="Digg!" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/networkbadge/scorpius3?icon"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mister-wong.com/add_url/" onClick="location.href=&amp;quot;http://www.mister-wong.com/index.php?action=addurl&amp;bm_url=&amp;quot;+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+&amp;quot;&amp;bm_description=&amp;quot;+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+&amp;quot;&amp;quot;;return false" title="Add this page to Mister Wong" target="_top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.mister-wong.com/img/en/buttons/wongbig06.gif" alt="Add this page to Mister Wong" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2688792781367647752?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071223/ap_on_tv_no_news.html' title='The News takes a backseat to the Entertainment!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2688792781367647752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2688792781367647752' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2688792781367647752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2688792781367647752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/news-takes-beackseat-to-entertainment.html' title='The News takes a backseat to the Entertainment!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R26g9qFbKvI/AAAAAAAAA3s/TysZS_5a2hI/s72-c/demo_paris_retrait_1032348_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2419409923149218958</id><published>2007-12-19T16:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-19T16:38:32.439-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meet'/><title type='text'>Want to talk?</title><content type='html'>The new way of meeting new Friends or dates seems to be the chatting on the phone. This site is great in the sense that we can use the &lt;a href="http://www.talk121.com/"&gt;chat lines&lt;/a&gt; that are available here and talk to anyone and everyone that we feel like 'chatting up' with. The great part is that we do not have to give any of our personal details to who ever we chat up with. Before sites like this, if we had to &lt;a href="http://www.talk121.com/"&gt;phone chat&lt;/a&gt;, we had to call up the other person on the phone and by this neither our number or the number of the person we would call would be private.&lt;br /&gt;But with this company, that detail is kept private and if you express the desire to chat with, say, person x, all you have to do was to request a chat line with that person and this company would put you in touch with that person. This way, neither of us would have to give out any of our personal details. The best part of all this is that here there is the option of &lt;a href="http://www.talk121.com/"&gt;free chat&lt;/a&gt; as long as the person we talk to is local. All in all, this does make up for one interesting experience!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2419409923149218958?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2419409923149218958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2419409923149218958' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2419409923149218958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2419409923149218958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/want-to-talk.html' title='Want to talk?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2596450550169232987</id><published>2007-12-16T08:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:17.027-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reality shows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david leterman show'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david letterman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='serials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guild'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mahatma gandhi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hollywood strike'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='freedom'/><title type='text'>The Hollywood strike explores the Gandhi movement!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2VRuaFbKQI/AAAAAAAAAz0/KT_Rt0phIPM/s1600-h/231132_9b4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2VRuaFbKQI/AAAAAAAAAz0/KT_Rt0phIPM/s400/231132_9b4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144608007058565378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071216/hollywood_labor.html"&gt;writers strike&lt;/a&gt; has taken a new turn with the Guild representing the writers pretty much throwing in the towel after the organisation representing the producers have walked out on them. This certainly represents the writers with a dilemma, as to whether they are prepared to cave in and go back to status quo as the producers and the studios would have them do so or to stand up and fight for their rights!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2VSO6FbKRI/AAAAAAAAAz8/5Kiw525UP6k/s1600-h/231130_152.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2VSO6FbKRI/AAAAAAAAAz8/5Kiw525UP6k/s400/231130_152.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144608565404313874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this strike has managed to do so far is to almost cripple the &lt;a href="http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&amp;id=1916"&gt;Hollywood industry&lt;/a&gt; as we know it, most of the television shows are fast running out of scripts and soon they would either have to telecast only reruns or cancel the show altogether. At least the serials can telecast reruns whereas the reality shows may even have to be taken off the air altogether. Which is why when the Guild announced to the writers that they would be approaching the production houses with the aim of ending this strike, one way or the other, thereby bypassing the association representing the studios and the producers, the writers and the David Letterman show welcomed the decision whole heartily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2VSV6FbKSI/AAAAAAAAA0E/XQbUm7MpU3Y/s1600-h/377186_0a223.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2VSV6FbKSI/AAAAAAAAA0E/XQbUm7MpU3Y/s400/377186_0a223.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144608685663398178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Letterman, although a member of the association that had been talking with the writers unsuccessfully with regard to ending the strike, has welcomed the decision of the writers Guild whole heartily as this would entail that each and every production house would come to an individual agreement with the Guild. I guess, it all depends on how badly you want a new script altogether. Here is where the saying 'united we stand, divided we fall' comes to my mind. This way of striking by not working or co-operating is not new to us, I guess it all started with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Cooperation_Movement"&gt;Mahatma Gandhi&lt;/a&gt; and his non cooperation movement to get the British raj to leave the Indian sub continent and I have to say that it was hugely successful then and it still is successful now. Any such movement with no violence and total non cooperation is bound to get results in the plenty. Personally I believe that the writers do deserve their just rewards and are entitled to what they are fighting for now. I hope that they do get it and that the show goes on!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/david+letterman"&gt;david letterman&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/mahatma+gandhi"&gt;mahatma gandhi&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/congress+party"&gt;congress party&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/non+cooperation"&gt;non cooperation&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/hollywood"&gt;hollywood&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/writers"&gt;writers&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/strike"&gt;strike&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/writers+guild"&gt;writers guild&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.png" width="91" height="17" alt="Digg!" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/networkbadge/scorpius3?icon"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mister-wong.com/add_url/" onClick="location.href=&amp;quot;http://www.mister-wong.com/index.php?action=addurl&amp;bm_url=&amp;quot;+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+&amp;quot;&amp;bm_description=&amp;quot;+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+&amp;quot;&amp;quot;;return false" title="Add this page to Mister Wong" target="_top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.mister-wong.com/img/en/buttons/wongbig06.gif" alt="Add this page to Mister Wong" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2596450550169232987?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071216/hollywood_labor.html' title='The Hollywood strike explores the Gandhi movement!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2596450550169232987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2596450550169232987' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2596450550169232987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2596450550169232987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/hollywood-strike-explores-gandhi.html' title='The Hollywood strike explores the Gandhi movement!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2VRuaFbKQI/AAAAAAAAAz0/KT_Rt0phIPM/s72-c/231132_9b4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7888755731830924059</id><published>2007-12-16T07:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-16T11:15:29.906-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><title type='text'>The gamers station on online backgammon!</title><content type='html'>These days games are being played increasingly online and the game of &lt;a href="http://www.mistergammon.com"&gt;backgammon&lt;/a&gt; is not an exception to this. These days all sorts of games are being played online for fun and for real. By that I do mean that these are also games where one can play for real money and lots of people do this on a day to day basis. Online games and &lt;a href="http://www.mistergammon.com "&gt;online backgammon&lt;/a&gt; are attracting a lot of customers not just because they are another source by which one can make easy money but surprisingly because playing backgammon online helps to relieve one's stress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This site is devoted primarily to this game and I have to say that when compared to a lot of other similar sites, this one is by far the best that I have come across, so far. The design aside, the customer service is very good here, with all of your queries being answered right away. Did I say that one can play this game here for real money, well, one can do so if one wants to or one can play it for free!&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.mistergammon.com/backgammon.htm"&gt;backgammon online&lt;/a&gt; is one interesting experience that I am sure that all of you would want to go through so just go to the links above and play this game for free!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7888755731830924059?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7888755731830924059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7888755731830924059' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7888755731830924059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7888755731830924059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/gamers-station.html' title='The gamers station on online backgammon!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7473984779574535285</id><published>2007-12-12T08:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:17.200-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fuel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exchange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gasoline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prices'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Light Crude goes up by 1.90$  !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2AOJM5jymI/AAAAAAAAAy8/9_kIklqoqOE/s1600-h/pump_economy_money_234816_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2AOJM5jymI/AAAAAAAAAy8/9_kIklqoqOE/s400/pump_economy_money_234816_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143126325701364322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The common economics states that as the inventory falls, more pressure is exerted on the supply as the demand for that product is constant and ever increasing. What am I talking about? I am talking about the price of Oil and the price tango that it seems to go into each and every time the Energy department announces to the world that the Inventories have either fallen or risen.&lt;br /&gt;The rise in inventory would make the oil prices to swing the other way about and this time around, the inventory stocks in the United states has fallen by at least 700,000 barrels last week, according to the energy dept. Naturally this has started exerting more pressure on the crude supplies and the factors that can effect the supply of Oil to the United states. Naturally as this news broke out, the immediate effect today is the rise in the price for Light Crude for January delivery which has risen by 1.90$ to 91.92$ a barrel on the NY Mercantile Exchange. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Oil market is tight as it is with the OPEC not really into making more deliverables than the current content. And at times like this if there is any news of a skirmish in the middle east or another Palestine - Israel conflict, that will have a very resounding impact on the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071212/oil_prices.html"&gt;Oil prices&lt;/a&gt; or if Bush were to get more hawkish on Iran or the entire Middle east, that will most definitely make the Oil reach for fresh pastures beyond the 105$ range. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What one should remember is that inventories rise and inventories fall, but it is when the inventories fall that one should take into account the other factors like the geo political factors. It is at times like this that the price of the Light Crude as well as the entire Oil market is most vulnerable and with the way that the U.S economy is under right now, we most certainly do not need a 'bullish' Oil market as that would only extend undue influence on the already falling Dollar and may even push it into the Nether world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/oil"&gt;oil&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/iran"&gt;Iran&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/united+states"&gt;United states&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/middle+east"&gt;middle east&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/dollar"&gt;Dollar&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button.png" width="91" height="17" alt="Digg!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7473984779574535285?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071212/oil_prices.html' title='Light Crude goes up by 1.90$  !'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7473984779574535285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7473984779574535285' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7473984779574535285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7473984779574535285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/light-crude-goes-up-by-190.html' title='Light Crude goes up by 1.90$  !'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2AOJM5jymI/AAAAAAAAAy8/9_kIklqoqOE/s72-c/pump_economy_money_234816_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-179177016247088623</id><published>2007-12-12T07:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:17.616-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shares.stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='index'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rate cut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dow jones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stock exchange'/><title type='text'>The DOW zooms up by 250 points!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2AD4c5jylI/AAAAAAAAAy0/n63F9MRSGyY/s1600-h/money_economic_economy_238232_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2AD4c5jylI/AAAAAAAAAy0/n63F9MRSGyY/s400/money_economic_economy_238232_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143115042822277714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally the FED has managed to unify its plan with the other central banks and thereby alleviate the current credit crisis. The credit crunch is so bad that getting a car loan is in fact even more difficult than buying a car from the dealer on a standby basis. The markets reacted favorably to the news that all the central banks have managed to get moving on a common plan to alleviate the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071212/wall_street.html"&gt;Credit crunch&lt;/a&gt; that is so evident in the markets today.&lt;br /&gt;The DOW which had sagged unfavorably after the recent FED rate cut, seems to have finally shaken off the Bear claws and has started moving in the right direction,up. But of course, as soon as the sub prime disaster had hit the  markets, this is what all the banks should have done. It has taken them this long to do what should have been done a long time back, but the investors and that includes me as well are all happy that they have finally show some backbone and have acted. One can only hope and pray that this momentum in the markets will continue on!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button.png" width="91" height="17" alt="Digg!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-179177016247088623?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071212/wall_street.html' title='The DOW zooms up by 250 points!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/179177016247088623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=179177016247088623' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/179177016247088623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/179177016247088623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/dow-zooms-up-by-250-points.html' title='The DOW zooms up by 250 points!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R2AD4c5jylI/AAAAAAAAAy0/n63F9MRSGyY/s72-c/money_economic_economy_238232_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8254168872448424913</id><published>2007-12-12T06:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T07:57:50.899-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='capital'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ventures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='financing'/><title type='text'>That very extra bit of provident!</title><content type='html'>THIS POST IS SPONSORED!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, the world is facing a huge economic crisis and the credit crunch has just started the 'squeeze'. These days, asking the bank to loan you even a farthing seems to be a difficult task to perform. That said, I have to say that &lt;a href="http://www.providentcapital.biz/"&gt;Provident Capital&lt;/a&gt; is doing a fantastic job of lending the money to the right quarters and helping us to finance our business ventures.&lt;br /&gt;With bank loan applications pending for weeks on end, many businessmen often turn to unscrupulous agencies for a bit of a loan to fund their business ventures. Which is why, I for one am glad that there are companies like Provident capital here to lend us a helping hand in this time of great need by all of us and on that note I have to say that the interest rates as well as the payment plans are really attractive! So just click on the link above and come on in!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-8254168872448424913?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/8254168872448424913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=8254168872448424913' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8254168872448424913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8254168872448424913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/that-very-extra-bit-of-provident.html' title='That very extra bit of provident!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-839870690997625302</id><published>2007-12-08T09:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-08T09:24:38.707-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='employment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lawyers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='employee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='justice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illegal immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arizona'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='united states'/><title type='text'>Arizona Big brother jumps on the Immigration bandwagon!</title><content type='html'>Arizona often touted as the IIEC[illegal immigration employment capital] of the United states may well soon lost that title altogether to Florida. With the recent law and the corresponding lawsuit filed against it, it has brought the issue of the Illegal immigration back into focus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, the question as to whether it is legal to hire an Illegal immigrant knowing that he/she is one, is currently illegal in Arizona the ex IIEC of the United states. But the recent suit against that very law that declares this to be illegal, seems to be far from over. The judge did not throw out the case because he considered it to be frivolous, but rather that it was filed against the wrong people and since it is a state law, it should be the state authorities in the dock and not the federal authorities, well as far as I could make out, that seems to be the reason. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All indications are that this law is already running into some problems and they are just bound to get a whole lot worse in the next couple of weeks. The question of whether it is right to hire illegal immigrants is one that has been bought in sharp focus by all this. There are those who will say that this law is the right one and that once the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071208/employer_sanctions.html"&gt;Illegal immigrants&lt;/a&gt; see that Arizona no longer has jobs for them, they will stop coming into Arizona. Then again, there are those who will argue that since the immigrants are already here, this law will deprive them of livelihood and so it is against human decency to do so. The employers will be on the side of the illegal immigrants since they will be losing a very valuable workforce. All in all, it is one dilemma that the state authorities would have to address very soon in a court of law!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/illegal+immigration"&gt;illegal immigration&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/arizona"&gt;Arizona&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/employment"&gt;employment&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/work"&gt;work&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.png" width="91" height="17" alt="Digg!" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-839870690997625302?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071208/employer_sanctions.html' title='Arizona Big brother jumps on the Immigration bandwagon!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/839870690997625302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=839870690997625302' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/839870690997625302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/839870690997625302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/arizona-big-brother-jumps-on.html' title='Arizona Big brother jumps on the Immigration bandwagon!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-4922754636211447113</id><published>2007-12-08T08:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-08T09:04:56.105-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reality shows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='producers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='impasse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='series'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='television'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hollywood strike'/><title type='text'>No go for the Hollywood writers!</title><content type='html'>Today more and more of those writers are turning to blogs and websites to earn a few dollars here and there as there seems to be no end to the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071208/hollywood_labor.html"&gt;Writer's strike&lt;/a&gt;. The Impasse continues with neither side willing to concede anything and as usual hard words are often exchanged through the very media that has been a bone of contention between the two of them. The writers want a bigger piece of the action as they often see their works being advertised on the WWW as well as the DVD releases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not here to say who is right and who is wrong, but the fact of the matter is that if this Impasse continues any longer, there are many, many freelance writers who are more than willing to take on the contracts. It is high time that both these sides realise that they cannot do without one another, one one had the current writers provide a uniqueness to all the current Hollywood shows and television series that no freelance writer can bring to the table. And the writers should realise that sooner or later all patience is going to go right out of the window and soon, they are going to find themselves out of a lucrative job which may well go to the freelance writers of this world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/media"&gt;media&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/television+shows"&gt;television shows&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/movies"&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/writers"&gt;writers&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/producers"&gt;producers&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/Hollywood"&gt;Hollywood&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.png" width="91" height="17" alt="Digg!" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-4922754636211447113?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071208/hollywood_labor.html' title='No go for the Hollywood writers!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/4922754636211447113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=4922754636211447113' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/4922754636211447113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/4922754636211447113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/no-go-for-hollywood-writers.html' title='No go for the Hollywood writers!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2434698842732682294</id><published>2007-12-06T01:45:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T01:53:55.169-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='booking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spanish'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rooms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hotels'/><title type='text'>Speak in Spanish? Book your hotels in Spanish!</title><content type='html'>Whenever we travel the language barrier is one of our biggest problems in the sense that you would not even be able to convey the most simple of requests across to the other person. It does make one wonder how the early travellers  had all communicated like the case of Marco polo and the Chinese, the only answer I have for that is that he must have spent some time learning the Chinese language. Well, when we travel we do not have that much time that we can spend on learning a foreign language and as such, we often have to make do with lousy hand signals. But thanks to &lt;a href="http://espanol.hotels.com/hotels/enes/24/_www_hotels_com"&gt;descuento en hoteles&lt;/a&gt;, now that need not be the case any longer!&lt;br /&gt;Here all the Spanish speaking people can go up and speak in Spanish and make all the bookings and reservations that they want. Yes, you heard me right, it seems that the days of not being able to convey your decisions across are over, especially for the Spanish speaking people residing in the United states. And the best part is that here, you have round the clock service , where they go out of their way to make sure that you as their customer are best cared for and that you have found the hotel room that is the best one for you!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2434698842732682294?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2434698842732682294/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2434698842732682294' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2434698842732682294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2434698842732682294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/speak-in-spanish-book-your-hotels-in.html' title='Speak in Spanish? Book your hotels in Spanish!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8512001350885419080</id><published>2007-12-06T01:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:18.034-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog for money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit cards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wallet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='purse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='man purse'/><title type='text'>The man purse!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R1rCzM5jygI/AAAAAAAAAyM/oHUGwgVFV0s/s1600-h/Object_White_Household_238578_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R1rCzM5jygI/AAAAAAAAAyM/oHUGwgVFV0s/s400/Object_White_Household_238578_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141636109488605698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that I am still on the issue of 'Purses and Wallets', the fact of the matter is that we are all so focused on the way that we look that we can devote an entire day just looking at things which are supposed to carry our cash and then spend tons of our hard earned cash on it so that we can tot an nearly empty purse/wallet to our friends and all. It really does not make any sense in any way you care to think about it.&lt;br /&gt;Now days even the Men are getting to be as equally finicky about what they want to carry their cash in. Gone are the days when a Man would just dump his money into his pocket and crumple the notes in the process. Now days, we have the purse for the Man himself and we tend to call it the &lt;a href="http://www.nextag.com/wallet-purse/search-html"rel="nofollow"&gt;Man purse&lt;/a&gt;. It really has come a long way since the times when only a woman was associated with the purse, these days any ad that you look at for purses and wallets will carry both the Men and the Women in it as the link above will show you clearly. The wallets are getting smaller and so are the purses and want to take a guess as to what is getting bigger all the time, you guessed it right, it is the price and today it is reaching astronomical levels!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-8512001350885419080?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.nextag.com/wallet-purse/search-html' title='The man purse!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/8512001350885419080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=8512001350885419080' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8512001350885419080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8512001350885419080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/man-purse.html' title='The man purse!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R1rCzM5jygI/AAAAAAAAAyM/oHUGwgVFV0s/s72-c/Object_White_Household_238578_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6091021779105303708</id><published>2007-12-06T01:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-08T07:54:43.328-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wallet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='purse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit card'/><title type='text'>The wallets are getting smaller!</title><content type='html'>Whether it has anything to do with the way that the economies all over the world are performing or not, of late the new wallets in the market are not only slimmer but they are a whole lot smaller. I fail to understand what is the need for smaller wallets, as such the wallets that we all use are of the right size, but it seems that they want to turn this into a version of the micro versus the macro thing in the wallet market. Soon, we many run out of space to keep our cash and cards in, then why on earth would we need a wallet at all?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6091021779105303708?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6091021779105303708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6091021779105303708' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6091021779105303708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6091021779105303708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/wallets-are-getting-smaller.html' title='The wallets are getting smaller!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-4806364330269642791</id><published>2007-12-05T02:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T02:29:05.362-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit card'/><title type='text'>The credit cards that are great!</title><content type='html'>To finally have a credit card search engine is just fantastic, because with it,now we can actually search and find the cards that suit us the best. There are so many credit cards that are available in today's market that one rarely knows which one to pick and choose from. But with this we ca compare all the &lt;a href="http://www.creditcardsearchengine.com/fair-credit.php"&gt;Fair Credit Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; and compare all the offers they are offering for their clients and customers.&lt;br /&gt;Normally the credit cards often offer varying rates of interest and this can be one of the factors by which we can sort through the whole lot and pick the one that suits us the best.The credit cards also offer various rewards and compensation packages, some of the cards that are listed here include the leading U.S Credit Card issuers such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank and leading brands Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Card. So to choose one that fits you well, click on the link above!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-4806364330269642791?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/4806364330269642791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=4806364330269642791' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/4806364330269642791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/4806364330269642791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/12/credit-cards-that-are-great.html' title='The credit cards that are great!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1410578322701174957</id><published>2007-11-29T08:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T08:26:04.477-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shopping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas shopping'/><title type='text'>Santa chief is here at last!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://tinyurl.com/yrx9am" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure that I had covered the holiday mood in the United states yesterday, especially with the current financial crisis far from over. The end result being that most of the holiday cheer seems to have disappeared with everyone and anyone in the United states going into the 'conserve' mood. Well, I can understand that with banks going tougher on credit and loans and with Mortgages, all one can do these holidays is to shop for discounts or at the least try and find where one can get some.&lt;br /&gt;Well, that need not be your worry any longer, especially as the &lt;a href="http://www.couponchief.com"&gt;CouponChief.com&lt;/a&gt; is here with brand new exciting offers and discounts. Actually the amount of coupons they have here and the discounts that they offer pretty much makes this a 'must see' store. The next time you want to purchase your dad some of the &lt;a href="http://www.couponchief.com/oldnavy"&gt;Old Navy&lt;/a&gt; stuff, go here to make use of the fantastic discounts that they have. Or if you are looking for some of the more expensive stuff like electronics, just stop by the &lt;a href="http://www.couponchief.com/dell"&gt;Dell&lt;/a&gt; and make use of the fantastic coupons that they have , because with those coupons, you can get all of the stuff pretty much at throwaway prices! Just follow the links and you are in!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.couponchief.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://tinyurl.com/yuo59w" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1410578322701174957?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1410578322701174957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1410578322701174957' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1410578322701174957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1410578322701174957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/santa-chief-is-here-at-last.html' title='Santa chief is here at last!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8980733853070140966</id><published>2007-11-27T11:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-27T11:21:24.502-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>The DOW surges by 200 points due to Citigroup confidence!</title><content type='html'>For a change, today saw the DOW rebound by 200 points as the news of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority investing more than 7.5 million$ in the already beleaguered Citigroup leaked out. This move is seem as a mark of confidence in the American economy and in this gloomy times, this news was indeed a welcome one at that.&lt;br /&gt;But the underlying problems still remain and the investors confidence is indeed very much shaken at the very least.&lt;br /&gt;So just because the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071127/wall_street.html"&gt;Abu Dhabi Investment Authority&lt;/a&gt; has invested in Citigroup does not mean that all the sub prime and the mortgage disasters are gone, sadly they are still very much there. This is one mess that we all will have to run through and there is just no way that any investment in American companies is going to make that go away!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-8980733853070140966?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071127/wall_street.html' title='The DOW surges by 200 points due to Citigroup confidence!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/8980733853070140966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=8980733853070140966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8980733853070140966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8980733853070140966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/dow-surges-by-200-points-due-to.html' title='The DOW surges by 200 points due to Citigroup confidence!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-4061591304269747772</id><published>2007-11-25T08:54:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T09:02:28.097-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='costs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='halth care'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='medicine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>How costly is healthcare these days?</title><content type='html'>These days Health care costs is spiralling out of control as the Dollar takes a beating in the markets. With all the resounding effects being felt over all the industries, the Health care is not immune to this Dollar tango, no pun intended. With the health care costs being so much these days, the people may have to start looking for other options like cheaper health care and cheaper benefits that many suit their budgets.&lt;br /&gt;The cost of the &lt;a href="http://www.allegromedical.com/"&gt;medical equipment&lt;/a&gt; and home health care products alone is astronomical these days and which is why I am glad that there is a company like Allegro medicals. This company is an Online retailer of medical equipment, home health care products, as well as a host of many other mainstream retail products as well. The best part is that all the products here are given out at very attractive rates that you may not even have to worry about the health care costs at all. This company has about 55,000 products, under 50 categories and hundreds of sub-categories and also offers great offers and discounts in its The Free Allegro eCatalog. With all of this, this company and its various products that are on offer, make this a much better alternative to the high costs of health care that we have at present in the United state. So what are you waiting for? Just click on the link above!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-4061591304269747772?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/4061591304269747772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=4061591304269747772' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/4061591304269747772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/4061591304269747772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-costly-is-healthcare-these-days.html' title='How costly is healthcare these days?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-3426213709047939813</id><published>2007-11-25T08:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T08:40:27.301-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog for money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><title type='text'>The Gold buys are now!</title><content type='html'>With the Dollar as low as it is today, these are the days that one should purchase gold as the price for gold has really taken a tumble with the dollar being so low as it is today. But the low price of gold may not increase its sales as the U.S markets are still struggling with the credit crunch. Be that as it may, if you are seeking to purchase gold for festive reasons, then these are the days for purchasing them, or you can also reinvest in gold futures as they are looking a whole lot more attractive these days.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-3426213709047939813?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/3426213709047939813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=3426213709047939813' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3426213709047939813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3426213709047939813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/gold-buys-are-now.html' title='The Gold buys are now!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1594611056987585030</id><published>2007-11-25T08:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-28T08:27:04.505-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mortgages'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homes'/><title type='text'>The holidays or the homes?</title><content type='html'>With everyone feeling the pinch of the mortgages these days, the holiday celebrations are muted. It has almost become a case of either 'celebrate the holidays or get to keep the house' in most of the middle class homes all over the United states. People who used to take a winter vacation are nowdays staying at homes to make sure that they have the necessary payment to cover their mortgages. Since the credit crunch, more and more people are conserving their spending and budgeting their &lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/loans/article/103935/Home-or-the-Holidays?"&gt;expenses&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1594611056987585030?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://finance.yahoo.com/loans/article/103935/Home-or-the-Holidays?' title='The holidays or the homes?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1594611056987585030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1594611056987585030' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1594611056987585030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1594611056987585030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/holidays-or-homes.html' title='The holidays or the homes?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7313817827401846601</id><published>2007-11-24T08:43:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T08:52:18.370-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv set'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='local listing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='purchase'/><title type='text'>Online research for easy local purchases!</title><content type='html'>Whenever we try to search or a product on most of the major search engines, we often get a location of the shop that is thousands of miles away from our place and that is the truth. The reality is that most of the search engines do not make your life easier for you, of course they will dispute this, bit the fact of the matter is that the results are often based on the amount of traffic that site gets. So lets say that you want to purchase a giant screen LCD television set, and you want to search some of the major search engines for the pricing and the location of the shop nearest to you and the directions to get to that place. You decide to search for it online with these search engines and the results you get will be enormous, like in the millions, and you will have to manually sift and sort through all of them personally before you can get to that local listing. See how difficult it is, here is where Krillion comes in.&lt;br /&gt;With Krillion, you can search for the &lt;a href="http://www.krillion.com/xNT-Pioneer-Televisions"&gt;pioneer 50 inch LCD&lt;/a&gt; locally and get the pricing, local listing as well as the directions to get there. It has certainly made my life easier and now I have no problems with doing my online research and offline purchases. The next time you want to purchase anything and you want to do a bit of a research before you do that, then go to the link above and you will see that Krillion is the one that will guide you to the right place! So click on!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7313817827401846601?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7313817827401846601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7313817827401846601' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7313817827401846601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7313817827401846601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/online-research-for-easy-local.html' title='Online research for easy local purchases!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6206587405341794220</id><published>2007-11-24T08:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:18.306-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='financial year'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blitz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dow jones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markets'/><title type='text'>The DOW goes down by 210 points!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R0hecpvBKjI/AAAAAAAAAvU/6XtMPzCIot8/s1600-h/wall_nyse_money_231772_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R0hecpvBKjI/AAAAAAAAAvU/6XtMPzCIot8/s400/wall_nyse_money_231772_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136459221348461106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071121/wall_street.html"&gt;Stock markets&lt;/a&gt; all over the world have seen dramatic movements both ways all over the year but none have seen the consistent negative reading that the Dow has been giving off late. Of course, it is not the Dow that is to blame but rather the investors are fast losing their faith on the US economy. Today saw the Dow Jones decline by about 210 points and according to many analysts, we should expect more of the same in the near future. The Freddie mac news of losing nearly 2 billion$ has hit the markets very hard and on top of that we had Countrywide declare some major losses as well and to make matters worse, we had the analysts downgrade Freddie mac which by the way has also led to its counterpart Frannie mae reporting huge losses as well. The stocks of both Freddie mac and Countrywide has taken quite a beating especially with the news that there may be some liquidity problems in Countrywide in the very near future.&lt;br /&gt;Things are bound to get worse before they get better but the million dollar question is 'how much worse are things going to get to?'. Well, according  to most economic analysts, they are going to get a whole lot worse and that what we are seeing now is nothing much compared to what is yet to happen. Of course, no one is a Nostradamus here and as such anything can happen in the future, but the fact of the matter is that as day by day goes and we keep hearing more and more bad news, we are all losing our confidence in the American economy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/economy"&gt;economy&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/united+states"&gt;united states&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/share+markets"&gt;share markets&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/dollar"&gt;dollar&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/180x35-digg-button.png " width="180" height="35" alt="Digg!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6206587405341794220?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071121/wall_street.html' title='The DOW goes down by 210 points!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6206587405341794220/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6206587405341794220' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6206587405341794220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6206587405341794220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/dow-goes-down-by-210-points.html' title='The DOW goes down by 210 points!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R0hecpvBKjI/AAAAAAAAAvU/6XtMPzCIot8/s72-c/wall_nyse_money_231772_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-5171935814793976260</id><published>2007-11-24T08:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:18.445-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buying power'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='parity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas shopping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='purchases'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Budget shopping is the craze now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R0hajZvBKiI/AAAAAAAAAvM/ibbivqp7T1U/s1600-h/shopping_cart_presents_261532_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R0hajZvBKiI/AAAAAAAAAvM/ibbivqp7T1U/s400/shopping_cart_presents_261532_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136454939266066978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With all the economic tumbles that has taken place the shoppers to today are no longer splurging and have turned to discount stores in droves for the holiday season and the purchases. The crowds are going crazy for '&lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071121/holiday_shopping.html?.v=6&amp;.pf=banking-budgeting"&gt;any discount&lt;/a&gt; that they can find on the shopping they have to do. It may be the season to be jolly but everyone is feeling the pinch this season. With the Dollar losing its purchasing power day by day, it is no wonder that the gloom has set in. With all this going on, most of the companies are seriously pondering layoffs for this year so as to minimise their loss. One can only hope that the New Year will indeed bring some new hope to the already beleaguered Dollar and the financial woes that we all are going through this season!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/economy"&gt;economy&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/budget"&gt;budget&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/season"&gt;season&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/dollar"&gt;dollar&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/180x35-digg-button.png " width="180" height="35" alt="Digg!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-5171935814793976260?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071121/holiday_shopping.html?.v=6&amp;.pf=banking-budgeting' title='Budget shopping is the craze now!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/5171935814793976260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=5171935814793976260' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/5171935814793976260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/5171935814793976260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/budget-shopping-is-craze-now.html' title='Budget shopping is the craze now!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R0hajZvBKiI/AAAAAAAAAvM/ibbivqp7T1U/s72-c/shopping_cart_presents_261532_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6794242127175932323</id><published>2007-11-24T08:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T08:39:58.159-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><title type='text'>The Capella life!</title><content type='html'>Education is the one important thing that we as Humans have contributed and are still contributing to, It is the one thing that has advanced our civilization more than anything else. Knowledge is power and that is more true today than ever before. As such, to countless foreign students aiming to pursue their higher studies in the United States, it may not be possible due to the high cost of transportation as well as the cost of the education. Education, at least the good quality ones come with a price tag that is simply just too high for most of these deserving students.&lt;br /&gt;Which is why, I for one am glad that a place called the &lt;a href="http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drglance_32673_brief.php"&gt;capella university&lt;/a&gt; is there. Capella university does not only provide an education opportunity for most of the students, local and foreign, but it provides a good quality education at that. It has about 104 graduate and undergraduate specializations and 15 certificate programs and to list them all here will take up all the space that I have. Lets just say that Capella university has made the online education strive for a better tomorrow by the high quality education that it gives out. The best part is that although the education that is offered by Capella is of the finest quality that one can get, it is also priced most attractively so that almost all of the students can afford it. Want to check it out? Just go to the links above and  have fun!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6794242127175932323?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6794242127175932323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6794242127175932323' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6794242127175932323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6794242127175932323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/capella-life.html' title='The Capella life!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2314342987865952850</id><published>2007-11-22T11:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-22T11:20:53.852-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='machines'/><title type='text'>The slots that you can not do without!</title><content type='html'>Everyone must have heard of Slot machines by now, it is one entertainment that we can not do without. I guess you can also call it a kind of stress buster, as it does that very effectively. These days one can find such entertainment online on the Internet, which is why they are called &lt;a href="http://www.sloterix.com"&gt;online slots&lt;/a&gt;. This site is really fantastic in the sense they have every kind of slot machine available at their site and I have to say that their collection is enormous, by any standards.&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.sloterix.com"&gt;slot machine&lt;/a&gt; is probably the best one that one will ever find online. Not only is it neatly designed but it is also very fast and effective. This is great especially when you think that there are sites where the game of slots will literally 'hang' the site up. With all the latest advances made in the field of graphics and multi media, playing the game of slots at this site is a real thrill seeker. Besides the &lt;a href="http://www.sloterix.com/slotsInfo.asp"&gt;slot machines&lt;/a&gt; the service that one gets here is next to the very best, so click on the links and come right on in!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2314342987865952850?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2314342987865952850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2314342987865952850' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2314342987865952850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2314342987865952850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/slots-that-you-can-not-do-without.html' title='The slots that you can not do without!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-921023256754045074</id><published>2007-11-22T11:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-22T11:11:14.800-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tax'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='financial year'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='infrastructure'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Why should we pay Tax?</title><content type='html'>No one likes the Taxman and paying taxes is not something that one would like to do regularly. The sad truth as to why the common man finds paying tax as pointless is mainly due to the incompetence of the politicians all over the world. As such the people all over the world are losing faith in their collective governments and the society as a whole. &lt;br /&gt;So when a common man is asked to pay his or her tax, it is only natural that he or she will view it with suspicion, if the corresponding development were to take place and if such a development were to benefit the common man then he or she would naturally be much more willing to shell out a part of their pay to the government. The Tax disillusionment is one main reason as to why people are more prone to hide their money and assets than declare it to the tax man. It is not because they do not like the idea of paying tax, although that may be the main reason for some of them, but by and large, they really do not see the point in paying such a tax as they do not see much development taking place. Also the common man thinks that most of his or her tax dollars goes to the politicians pockets, so why should he continue to pay his tax? The year ending[ financial year] is not all that far away, just a few months down the line, and right after that, we have to declare our assets and pay our tax, for good or for worse,Personally I think that this system is not perfect and that there should be a system by which the government should explain as to what they are doing with our tax dollars[ I do not mean the budget], but rather explain to the public as to the spending and the expense bills that every politicians runs up to astronomical amounts. Am I right in asking this?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-921023256754045074?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/921023256754045074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=921023256754045074' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/921023256754045074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/921023256754045074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-should-we-pay-tax.html' title='Why should we pay Tax?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7818055277909547581</id><published>2007-11-21T12:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-21T12:43:24.288-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bonds'/><title type='text'>Oil touches 100$ - well almost!</title><content type='html'>With various issues raising their heads all over the world starting from the Musharraf emergency and worries about Pakistani nuclear weapons to Iran and the nuclear weapons program to Middle east violence all these seem to be contributing a lot these days to the Oil bull run. With no end to saber rattling in sight, the Oil is bound to remain high for the next few days anyway. &lt;br /&gt;This is all the more true as the demands on Oil futures seem to keep going up and as usual OPEC is not going to do much about the 100$ dash. With no end to all this in sight,maybe it is time that we all took to the issue of 'alternative fuels' a bit more seriously!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7818055277909547581?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071121/oil_prices.html' title='Oil touches 100$ - well almost!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7818055277909547581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7818055277909547581' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7818055277909547581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7818055277909547581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/oil-touches-100-well-almost.html' title='Oil touches 100$ - well almost!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-5261990238153937746</id><published>2007-11-21T12:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-21T12:35:04.233-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hiring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='employee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='headhunting'/><title type='text'>Headhunting becomes all too easy!</title><content type='html'>Often hiring the right person for the job is all too difficult and you may not find the right match for your company for a long time to come. In this dog eat dog world, every second counts as the saying 'time is money' becomes all too true. We cannot afford to spend countless amount of time looking over various applicants and going through their interviews. As such this is where the &lt;a href="http://www.aefeldman.com/contact_us/"&gt;headhunters&lt;/a&gt; step in, these guys are the best in the business and they make sure that you do get that perfect employee, that is they go out of their way to make sure that you find the right match for your company. These guys specialise in recruiting everyone from middle to executive to top “C level” management seem like a dream. These headhunters specialise in financial and risk management services, legal and legal support services, communications and technology, human resources consulting, and luxury products and within these fields, they will get you that all perfect employee that you and your company require!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-5261990238153937746?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/5261990238153937746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=5261990238153937746' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/5261990238153937746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/5261990238153937746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/headhunting-becomes-all-too-easy.html' title='Headhunting becomes all too easy!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6869349400575758434</id><published>2007-11-20T11:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T10:57:18.833-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='united states'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business'/><title type='text'>Fed forecasts a gloomy year ahead!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R0M1VJvBKaI/AAAAAAAAAuM/A-AiNIAwTnw/s1600-h/George_Washington_money_238053_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R0M1VJvBKaI/AAAAAAAAAuM/A-AiNIAwTnw/s400/George_Washington_money_238053_tn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135006637639149986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well the markets were waiting for the Fed minutes and they are out now, the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071120/fed_forecast.html"&gt;Fed forecasts&lt;/a&gt; a gloomy period ahead and with the unemployment bound to shoot up in the first quarter of the next year. This is not exactly an unexpected news but everyone were hoping that the Fed would do a magicians trick and wave its wand and make the whole Subprime and Housing disaster go away!&lt;br /&gt;That is easier said than done, it is not all gloomy with the consumer index showing some signs of life.But come on, with such huge crisis like the Subprime and the Housing markets, there is bound to be some sort of a long term impact on the economy as a whole. It is going to be a tough road to walk on for the next few quarters and there is no going around this, this is one road that we all have to just grit our teeth and walk. After all, it is only when the things start getting tough, the tough starts going, so lets do that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/finance"&gt;finance&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/economy"&gt;economy&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/subprime"&gt;subprime&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/housing"&gt;housing&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fed"&gt;Fed&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digg.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/180x35-digg-button.png " width="180" height="35" alt="Digg!" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-6869349400575758434?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071120/fed_forecast.html' title='Fed forecasts a gloomy year ahead!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/6869349400575758434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=6869349400575758434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6869349400575758434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/6869349400575758434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/fed-forecasts-gloomy-year-ahead.html' title='Fed forecasts a gloomy year ahead!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TuYz-qVZwkA/R0M1VJvBKaI/AAAAAAAAAuM/A-AiNIAwTnw/s72-c/George_Washington_money_238053_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-376405555441471040</id><published>2007-11-20T10:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T11:08:10.215-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='real estate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housing rates'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='freddie mac'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Freddie Mac loses 2 Billion$ and now may go bust?</title><content type='html'>There are days when the bad news just keeps on coming , I am sure that there are many of you out there who wish that this subprime mess was taken care right in the beginning itself but hey, everything seems possible in retrospect. And today we get to hear about the Big Freddie losing a cool 2 Billion$ in all his subprime and the housing crisis.&lt;br /&gt;Freddie Mac is the nations second largest buyer and the guarantor of house loans, since they announced this news, I guess that &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071120/earns_freddie_mac.html"&gt;Big Freddie&lt;/a&gt; has taken quite a beating on Wall street already. What does this mean for the common man? Well, for one thing, getting a loan is not going to be all that easy from now on and Freddie is definitely not going to be smiling at your loan applications, that's for sure. The housing market is fast heading into a free fall, with the resounding impacts on the real estate and other markets which will become all too apparent soon!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-376405555441471040?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071120/earns_freddie_mac.html' title='Freddie Mac loses 2 Billion$ and now may go bust?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/376405555441471040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=376405555441471040' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/376405555441471040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/376405555441471040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/freddie-mac-loses-2-billion-and-now-may.html' title='Freddie Mac loses 2 Billion$ and now may go bust?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1583970290448016667</id><published>2007-11-20T10:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T10:52:10.725-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='list'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mailing list'/><title type='text'>The best list that your business needs!</title><content type='html'>Every business needs all the edge that it can get so as to overcome its rivals. And in this 'dog eat dog' world competion is really fierce. Martin worldwide has managed to collect a databse, a huge mailing list and it is not just any &lt;a href="http://www.martinworldwide.net/"&gt;Mailing Lists&lt;/a&gt;. This is a product of Martim worldwide called ResponseCom™. This peoduct is one huge mailing list that consists solely of direct mail resonders, that is these are the people who resond to direct mails and not just that, this list can also be customised according to your wishes. In short with ResponseCom™, you would have gotten an edge over your rivals as far as marketing and avertising is concerned.&lt;br /&gt;Martin worldwide has many clients, many of them are small businesses and also big companies from the Forbes list. It really does not matter whether you have a small business or a big one because in the end you will need the List, because it is with this List that your success is assured. So if you want that extra edge, then click on the link above and come right on in!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1583970290448016667?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1583970290448016667/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1583970290448016667' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1583970290448016667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1583970290448016667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/best-list-that-your-business-needs.html' title='The best list that your business needs!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-9073489920647141053</id><published>2007-11-20T09:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T09:48:13.856-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fuel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='greenhouse gasoline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crude'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Canada crude fire and a weak Dollar push the crude prices up!</title><content type='html'>Everything seems to be pushing the Crude prices up, up and up. Now we get to hear about the Canadian fire that seems to have hit some of the Crude supply to the North American side of the continent and that coupled with the weak Dollar seems to be egging the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071120/oil_prices.html"&gt;Crude prices&lt;/a&gt; way up.&lt;br /&gt;The recently held OPEC conference did not do much for any of us in the sense that all that was decided was to increase the supply but the catch is that the supply is not being increased right away and not by that much. So the OPEC is not going to do much with regard to the Crude prices as well; that certainly leaves the rest of the world to grapple with the rising Crude prices on its own.&lt;br /&gt;Oil futures seems to be a welcome destination these days for many a foreign investor and they all seem to be buying the futures like there is no tomorrow, since a weak Dollar means great profits to be made in the oil futures as they will give you fantastic returns at a future date. This seems to be the case as the Fed is once again mulling rate cuts. From now on, we can expect the Crude prices and by that I mean the gas prices to head in only one direction and that is up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/gasoline"&gt;gasoline&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/dollar"&gt;dollar&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/united+states"&gt;united states&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/fuel"&gt;fuel&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/money"&gt;money&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-9073489920647141053?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071120/oil_prices.html' title='Canada crude fire and a weak Dollar push the crude prices up!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/9073489920647141053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=9073489920647141053' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/9073489920647141053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/9073489920647141053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/canada-crude-fire-and-weak-dollar-push.html' title='Canada crude fire and a weak Dollar push the crude prices up!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1196728037669562632</id><published>2007-11-20T09:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T09:23:19.791-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='share market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Wall street gets the hives ahead of the FED minutes!</title><content type='html'>With all the sub prime losses facing the markets, one would think that the Wall street would be reading the situation much more clearly but that has not yet happened. All that we are getting out of the Wall street these days are a knee jerk reaction to any financial data that comes out. Today was no exception, especially with the news that the Fed minutes can be expected any moment. That was all it took to blow some life back in to a heavily battered stock market.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1196728037669562632?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071120/wall_street.html' title='Wall street gets the hives ahead of the FED minutes!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1196728037669562632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1196728037669562632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1196728037669562632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1196728037669562632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/wall-street-gets-hives-ahead-of-fed.html' title='Wall street gets the hives ahead of the FED minutes!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-3774610939089033473</id><published>2007-11-17T09:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T09:32:40.754-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monaco'/><title type='text'>The Monaco rare coins, a whole new world!</title><content type='html'>The world of rare coins is indeed a brave new world to many of us, there are so many of us who do not know what a rare coin is, where it was minted, were there any irregularities on the coin that makes it invaluable and so on.In short, if I were to say that we do not know much about rare coins at all, that would not be a statement far from the truth, would it?&lt;br /&gt;Monaco rare coins are coin experts and as such are the people that you need to get in touch with especially in regard to developing a portfolio of rare coins. The Monaco rare coins company belongs to the Monex group of companies who are experts in hard assets investments. As such, the Monaco rare coins has access to unlimited resources all of which it puts to good use for the benefit of its clients, that is for people like us.&lt;br /&gt;They have contacts in almost every rare coins market and in all probability know almost every rare coin dealer in the world today. As such, they are the ones that are well placed to get you not just the real stuff, but to get it at the least prices possible and if you want to sell off your collection of rare coins, that is also no problem to them. They will get you the best prices that they can get for your coin collection. It is with the help of Monaco rare coins that we can make our investments in &lt;a href="http://www.zoomcoin.com/rare-coin-gallery/"&gt;gold coins&lt;/a&gt; and rare coins an investment that will last not just our lifetime but many lifetimes after that!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-3774610939089033473?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/3774610939089033473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=3774610939089033473' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3774610939089033473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/3774610939089033473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/monace-rare-coins-whole-new-world.html' title='The Monaco rare coins, a whole new world!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7613492972572189043</id><published>2007-11-17T09:17:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T11:39:58.905-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7613492972572189043?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7613492972572189043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7613492972572189043' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7613492972572189043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7613492972572189043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/dd.html' title=''/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7338564721325148149</id><published>2007-11-15T14:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-15T15:10:19.575-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='send money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='expensive'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>The Money help that we need!</title><content type='html'>With the cost of things spiralling out of control especially with oil reaching nearly 100$ is it any surprise that we all are felling the pinch these days. No amount of increase in the living expenses seem to diminish the hunger of the tax man. At times like these, some of us may find ourselves in a financial jam of sorts. There is nothing to be ashamed of admitting that we are finding it a wee difficult to make the ends meet. Don't fret anymore now that we have a company like this one here, which is providing that much needed relief to all U.K residents. What am I talking about, it is not about handouts but it is all about &lt;a href="http://www.robertsbridgefinancial.com"&gt;Payday Loans&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;These days many a company is offering us loans so do not just choose the very first one that you come across. Before taking a &lt;a href="http://www.robertsbridgefinancial.com "&gt;Cash Advance&lt;/a&gt; it is always important to do some research and try and find out which company is the best. That is exactly what I did and this company is one of the best in the sense that they have some of the lowest interest rates that I have seen when compared to others. That is not all, they have a fantastic repayment plan that is altogether flexible.&lt;br /&gt;In the land of the kings and queens, and the most expensive city in the world, is it any surprising that I for one am glad that this company is out there to help people like us?&lt;br /&gt;The application for the &lt;a href="http://www.robertsbridgefinancial.com"&gt;Salary Advance&lt;/a&gt; can be made online itself and it gets approved very very quickly and the money gets transferred to your bank checking account within minutes of approval. So all you need to do in order to apply for this short term loan is to go to the links above, click them, go to the site, fill in on the details and before you can say 'hot jiffy' you will find the money sitting in your account! So just click the links and come on in!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7338564721325148149?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.robertsbridgefinancial.com' title='The Money help that we need!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7338564721325148149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7338564721325148149' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7338564721325148149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7338564721325148149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/money-help-that-we-need.html' title='The Money help that we need!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-2238913866519223298</id><published>2007-11-15T14:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-15T14:54:19.704-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='signature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='richest man'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='j.k.rowling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bo derek'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='harry potter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='famous'/><title type='text'>Movie star autographs - do you want them?</title><content type='html'>This concept of getting the &lt;a href="http://www.memorabilia4u.com/"&gt;Autograph&lt;/a&gt; of famous people is really quite old in the sense that since time immemorial, we have always wanted to share in the glow of the rich and the famous. The only difference is that now we no longer have to stand in long lines for it or undergo any other hardship for it. This company provides its services to us by getting us these autographs for a reasonable price.&lt;br /&gt;The great thing about this site is that it is so neatly designed and has a very organised feel throughout the site. Film stars to one side then the sports section to another and there are other sections as well. Can you imagine what will your grandson or granddaughter say about a signed autograph of Rowling, the creator of Harry potter? They would be in the seventh heaven. That is not all, collecting the &lt;a href="http://www.memorabilia4u.com/"&gt;Autographs&lt;/a&gt; is also an investment in the sense that 30 years from now, the autographs that you acquired with the help of this site would have become 10 times as valuable. They are just like the baseball cards, the older the card, the older and more famous the autograph is, the higher its value.&lt;br /&gt;I guess getting a &lt;a href="http://www.memorabilia4u.com/"&gt;Signed Photo&lt;/a&gt; of Bo Derek would definitely be the high point for some people. The neat thing about having such a memorabilia is that the older it gets the more valuable it becomes. I am sure that today, Lincoln's autograph will definitely sell for thousands of dollars in the market today. So care to make an investment, if so, just click on the links above and come on in!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-2238913866519223298?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.memorabilia4u.com/' title='Movie star autographs - do you want them?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/2238913866519223298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=2238913866519223298' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2238913866519223298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/2238913866519223298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/movie-star-autographs-do-you-want-them.html' title='Movie star autographs - do you want them?'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-1691188945313499722</id><published>2007-11-14T09:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-14T09:54:50.302-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='indian rupee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='single currency'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yen'/><title type='text'>Dollar seems to be eating the dust these days!</title><content type='html'>Well at least it is official at last, almost all the currencies are leaving the Dollar eating their dust, even the Yen is becoming resurgent to the Dollar much to the chagrin of the central bank of Japan, even if they wanted to fiddle the forex market which is what they always do to keep the Yen down, but this time around the sentiment of the whole market is against that.&lt;br /&gt;Today saw the Indian Rupee end a losing streak against the Dollar and surge ahead to cap all the losses it had made in the last few days. With the Bull market showing no signs of slowing down and a very strong resurgent economy, this is to be expected. But on a cautious note to all the forex dealers out there, keep in mind that the Indian Rupee is not yet a free flowing currency, that is, it has not yet become &lt;a href="http://www.ndtvprofit.com/homepage/storybusinessnew.asp?id=41734&amp;template=&amp;ch=11/14/2007%206:03:00%20PM"&gt;Fully Convertible&lt;/a&gt; and in such scenarios, the Reserve bank of India is a whole lot more protective towards the Indian rupee and they will ensure that it swings either way within a very narrow margin. &lt;br /&gt;But it is this very margin, that is the 1$ to 39 INR range that is giving much excitement and joy to the forex dealers world wide. One can even say that no other currency is showing so much volatility within such narrow ranges and people are just making bundles on mere movements of just 10 paisa on either side. It is like a Forex market within a Forex market, with only 2 players, the Indian rupee and the U.S Dollar. What goes up comes down in the afternoon and by the evening, the strong economic data of the day boosts the Indian rupee all over again. So people get to make money not just once or twice but three times a day. It is no wonder that nearly all the forex dealers that I met today have a big smile on their faces and they just cant seem to stop talking about the Indian Rupee and the falling Dollar!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/economy" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=economy" alt=" " /&gt;economy&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/u.s+dollar" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=u.s+dollar" alt=" " /&gt;u.s dollar&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/yen" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=yen" alt=" " /&gt;yen&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/currency" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=currency" alt=" " /&gt;currency&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-1691188945313499722?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.ndtvprofit.com/homepage/storybusinessnew.asp?id=41734&amp;template=&amp;ch=11/14/2007%206:03:00%20PM' title='Dollar seems to be eating the dust these days!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/1691188945313499722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=1691188945313499722' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1691188945313499722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/1691188945313499722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/dollar-seems-to-be-eating-dust-these.html' title='Dollar seems to be eating the dust these days!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-787874485693886742</id><published>2007-11-13T13:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-13T13:41:47.008-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='smell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vapor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='furnace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='filter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='air'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='smoke'/><title type='text'>The Furnace that you may need right now!</title><content type='html'>Everyone cooks or nearly everyone does and if you cook without a &lt;a href="http://www.webproducts.com/Categories.bok?category=Furnace+Filters"&gt;Furnace Filter&lt;/a&gt; then you will feel as though you are being suffocated. Can you imagine being surrounded by a high flame and the masala smell and with your sweat running down in rivulets down your body, how enjoyable will you truly find that experience?&lt;br /&gt;Which is why all kitches require a good Furnace filter to help filter out all that bad smoke and smelly vapors. &lt;br /&gt;But before one does purchase it, one should always compare all the &lt;a href="http://www.webproducts.com/Categories.bok?category=Furnace+Filters"&gt;Furnace Filters&lt;/a&gt; and see which one is the best and which comes with a good customer service. Because a filter will need good maintanence so you will require the furnace to get sericed every now and then!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-787874485693886742?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://webproducts.com/' title='The Furnace that you may need right now!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/787874485693886742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=787874485693886742' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/787874485693886742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/787874485693886742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/furnace-that-you-may-need-right-now.html' title='The Furnace that you may need right now!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7355990447434635708</id><published>2007-11-13T10:26:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-14T09:36:55.964-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urgent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='payday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='needlework'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='payday loan'/><title type='text'>The right payday help!</title><content type='html'>As often when we need help with our finances, we often tend to make dumb decisions and then tend to make them even worse by doing something even more dumber. We all need that extra bit of help as without it where would we be? The holiday season is almost on us and to be honest I can only think of the impact that these holidays are going to have on my wallet. There are so many gifts to buy and what is more ,a holiday to plan as well. At times like these, it often becomes difficult to make both ends meet.&lt;br /&gt;When we are faced with such a scenario we often tend to either sell something that is priceless to us or tend to ask our friends for money. The first one is really dumb and when we sell them, we often cannot sell it for its true worth. Where as the second one is even dumber, since we all need our friends and often asking our friends for money may see them rushing out of the door once and for ever. There are many sensible options that we can use in such situations and the best amongst them is the option of &lt;a href="http://www.paydayloanquotes.com"&gt;Faxless Payday Loans&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This site is one of the best in the sense that they offer you quotes right away with no strings attached and the service is done very quickly. You can apply online and the whole process takes only a moment of your valuable time. Their rates of interest are quite low when compared to the others and what is more , they have a very attractive repayment plan. So of all the sites that i saw on payday loans these guys are the best, at least in my opinion they most certainly are. So check them out and go to the link above and do some debt consolidation!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7355990447434635708?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7355990447434635708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7355990447434635708' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7355990447434635708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7355990447434635708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/right-payday-help.html' title='The right payday help!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-7774525155384161967</id><published>2007-11-13T10:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-13T10:26:18.973-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dollar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='markets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer spending'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='purchase'/><title type='text'>Dollar hitting new lows against the yen!</title><content type='html'>Today the &lt;a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071113/dollar_gold.html?.v=5"&gt;Dollar&lt;/a&gt; is trading at new lows against the Yen, currently trading in the 110 margin. Just a few months back the Dollar was at 118 to the Yen  but with the subprime and the housing market the Dollar is fast heading to new slumps and it seems that it is pulling the Gold with it. Many of you know that before the 1980's the Dollar was pegged to the Gold but that has since then been de linked. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the sentimental factor along with a really cold beary market is fast sending the Gold in the direction of the Dollar. But that is good news for the consumers in the sense that they can now get the gold jewellery at a much lower rate. But the problem is that there are not that many consumers who want to purchase anything right now and all the purses and the wallets are busy tightening and the consumer spending is getting lower. Which is why the festival season could not hae come at a much better time and with X'mas right around the corner perhaps with increased spending by way of gift purchases by the consumer and better news in the market, thew Dollar can start looking up!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-7774525155384161967?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071113/dollar_gold.html?.v=5' title='Dollar hitting new lows against the yen!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/7774525155384161967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=7774525155384161967' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7774525155384161967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/7774525155384161967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/dollar-hitting-new-lows-against-yen.html' title='Dollar hitting new lows against the yen!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-8610454921180987145</id><published>2007-11-04T10:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T10:28:35.739-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reviews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='used'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='products'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='purchase'/><title type='text'>The Trust that we show on product ads!</title><content type='html'>In this day and age it is nice to know that we still believe in what we see must indeed be true. But unfortunately there are a lot of others who know this as well and do their best to take advantage of our good nature. What am I talking about? I am talking about the ads that we come across online or on the telly, each and every one of those ads promising the earth and the heaven if we purchase their products.&lt;br /&gt;It would sure be great if we had a site that not only reviews the products that we want to purchase but also rates them. Guess what, this site does exactly that. It reviews each and every product from &lt;a href="http://www.trustsource.org/hairloss"&gt;provillus&lt;/a&gt; to the ones that promise to make you 'stop smoking'.&lt;br /&gt;As you see, it is difficult to make a judgement call as we see the ads. We all need a site like this where actual people review the products and rate them accordingly. Recently I was looking at a company for a &lt;a href="http://www.trustsource.org/cash-advance"&gt;cash advance&lt;/a&gt;. But I was not sure if I was approaching the right company. I decided to go to this site and they managed to refer me to the right place for some &lt;a href="http://www.trustsource.org/cash-advance"&gt;payday loans&lt;/a&gt;. If I had gone to the wrong kind of place, their interest rates alone would have been designed to keep me in debt forever. Which is why, anytime from now,if you want to buy something, just go to the links above and check out the product or service first to see how it has been rated by actual users of that product!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/641824414881514324-8610454921180987145?l=moneydrives.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.trustsource.org' title='The Trust that we show on product ads!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/feeds/8610454921180987145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=641824414881514324&amp;postID=8610454921180987145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8610454921180987145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/641824414881514324/posts/default/8610454921180987145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://moneydrives.blogspot.com/2007/11/trust-that-we-show-on-product-ads.html' title='The Trust that we show on product ads!'/><author><name>scorpius</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06719396054728814443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641824414881514324.post-6882349614237217977</id><published>2007-11-04T08:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T07:32:25.509-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fashion wear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><title type='text'>The heights of Fashion!</title><content type='html'>In this day and age, if you are not wearing the latest designer clothes or the latest fashions, you are not the 'In crowd'. 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